Supports, therefore, the Commission’s intention to include service standards in the legal framework of European standardisation, as this will not only ensure the notification of all national service standards that could potentially constitute technical barriers to trade in the internal market, but also provide a proper legal basis on which the Commission can request the ESOs to develop standards in well-defined and carefully assessed areas in the services sector; suggests to the Commission that it encourage service providers to develop standards within the ESOs in order, insofar as possible, to avoid fragmentation among different national standards, while ensuring that service standards are related ...[+++] to the needs of the market and consumers and the public interest; supports actions taken to ensure the quality of service provision, such as quality charters or labels drawn up by professional bodies, and encourages all relevant actors to participate in the European standardisation process;

Recognises that service standards often respond to national specificities and that their development is related to the needs of the market, the interests of consumers and the public interest; stresses, that the development of European service standards, and the drawing-up by professional bodies of their own quality charters or labels at Union level, as provided for in Directive 2006/123/EC on services in the internal market, should benefit further harmonisation in the services sector, increase the transparency, quality and competitiveness of European services and promote competition, innovation, the reduction of trade barriers and consu ...[+++]mer protection;

[1] The Communication draws on informal expert meetings held by the Commission, contacts with authorities in the MS, the conclusions of a pan-European conference on Asset Recovery Offices and the draft conclusions of a Commission study on confiscation in the MS (not yet public).

[1] The Communication draws on informal expert meetings held by the Commission, contacts with authorities in the MS, the conclusions of a pan-European conference on Asset Recovery Offices and the draft conclusions of a Commission study on confiscation in the MS (not yet public).

- a very rapid strengthening of the capacity to standardize, preferably at European level, with a view to facilitating on the one hand harmonization of legislation by the Community and on the other industrial development, particularly in the field of new technologies, since this could in specific circumstances involve the Community in introducing new procedures to improve the drawing up of standards (e.g. standardization bureaus, ad hoc committees).

3 . THE QUALITY STANDARDS SHALL APPLY FROM 1 JULY 1962 TO THE PRODUCTS LISTED IN ANNEXES I A AND I B . THE STANDARDS FOR PRODUCTS LISTED IN ANNEX I A ARE SET OUT IN ANNEX II . STANDARDS FOR THE PRODUCTS LISTED IN ANNEX I B SHALL BE ADOPTED NOT LATER THAN 30 JUNE 1962 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCEDURE LAID DOWN IN ARTICLE 13 .