COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE EVALUATION of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on European standardisation

EUROPEAN COMMISSION COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE EVALUATION Brussels, 23.6.2025 SWD(2025) 171 final of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on European standardisation {SWD(2025) 170 final} EN EN On 1 January 2013, Regulation (EU) 1025/2012 became applicable, setting out a new legal framework to organise the interface between the European Commission and the broader, privately-run European standardisation system on the delivery of harmonised standards in support of EU policies and legislation. The specific objectives of the Regulation were to reduce the delivery time for standards developed at the Commission’s request, to ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and societal stakeholders were adequately represented in the standardisation process, to broaden the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) standards, and to remove ambiguities in the existing legal framework. To this end, Regulation (EU) 1025/2012 sets out principles of governance – including inclusiveness – for standards-development in support of EU legislation and policies, describes the procedures and regulates the financing methods and recourse mechanisms. The purpose of this evaluation is to present an informed analysis of the Regulation’s current performance, assessing its effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, EU added value and relevance, in light of the...