PD CEN/TR 16410:2012

Foreword
Executive summary
1 Introduction
2 The Wider Perspective on Barriers to Trade
3 The State of the European Union Single Market
4 Barriers Created by National Legislative Approaches
5 Controls on Market Legislation
6 Barriers Resulting from Policy Instruments
   or Schemes
7 Examples of the restrictions on use of materials
8 The Industry Perspective
9 Can Standardisation Eliminate Barriers to Use?
10 Conclusions
Annex A (informative) - German System for derivation
        of OELs
Annex B (informative) - The World Trade Organisation
Annex C (informative) - European Commission Process for
        Setting Green Public Procurement (GPP) Criteria
Bibliography

Defines the concept and realities of barriers to trade in construction products within the European Union insofar as the products were affected by regulations relating to Essential Requirement 3 (ER3) of the Construction Products Directive (89/106/EEC).

This TR is an extension to CEN/TR 15855:2009. This original report on Barriers to Trade, prepared in response to Mandate M/366 given to CEN/TC 351 by the European Commission, identified that some of these barriers were truly technical or legal barriers to trade which can usually be overcome or minimised by technical harmonisation work, but others were quite legally in place, sometimes voluntary, but were nonetheless still seen as a barrier to the use of certain products in a free market place. This report is an examination of these concepts in more detail and an attempt to identify the reasons behind the presence of barriers to use and to present specific examples in more detail.