Notifications under EU Directive 2015/1535
The Directive 2015/1535 aims to ensure that draft national measures are compatible with EU legislation and the Internal Market principles. It also allows the opportunity for these drafts to be discussed and reviewed by the EU Commission, Member States, and the public. It accomplishes this through a procedure that imposes an obligation upon Member States to notify all draft technical regulations concerning products and Information Society services before they are adopted in Member States' national law. Failure to notify a relevant regulation can render that regulation unenforceable.
NSAI is the national contact point under this Directive, NSAI will process notifications, comments, and detailed opinions through the TRIS portal and communication from the EU to the Republic of Ireland and from the Republic of Ireland to the EU, as the intermediary.
Technical Regulation Information System (TRIS)
This tool allows the public, EU Commission, and Member States to view notifications which is during a standstill period, where the draft cannot be adopted, where comments (made by the public, EU Commission, and Member States) and detailed opinions (made by the EU Commission and Member States) can be made. These comments and detailed opinions may only be submitted during the standstill period of the notification, therefore please adhere to the standstill period for the particular notification.
The following link will take you to the TRIS database where you can search and view the notifications and the draft texts.
If you wish to make a "contribution" to a notification, a comment/message, it can be done through the TRIS website on the page of the notification. This is open to the public, and if the option of confidentiality is selected, this will only go to the EU Commission. A "contribution" may or may not be responded to by the Commission, however receipt of it will be sent by the Commission.
For Officials
Note that this is only applicable to the Irish public authorities Government departments, Government bodies, agencies and local authorities.
Please read the following guide for information about EU Directive 2015/1535 and the procedures in NSAI for the Directive for submitting notification, comments, and detailed opinions.
If you wish to view comments and/or detailed opinions regarding notifications from other Member States please read the guide for further information.
If you wish to provide comments or detailed opinions to Member States' notifications, please read the guide for submittal of detailed opinions or comments. This needs to be done during the indicated standstill period for the particular notification.
If you would like to submit a notification to TRIS, please read the guide about the Directive, the notification procedure, and the Directive's and NSAI's procedures.
Please ensure that you read the relevant documents and follow the Directive's and NSAI's procedures outlined to ensure that the notifications are processed correctly.
Links
Officials should note that as part of the TRIS procedure NSAI will monitor the draft text of acts and legislation for references to European standards. By referencing standards/NSAI deliverables within legislation, they may become compulsory at national level, depending on the nature of the reference. NSAI has an obligation to notify CEN-CENELEC Management Centre (CCMC) of European Standards when standards are made compulsory in Ireland.
When the Information Officer receives the initial draft text from a government department for submission through TRIS, the department will be asked if there are any references to European standards within the draft text and if the reference will make them compulsory. This will give an indication where standards may become compulsory at national level. When the final draft text document(s) are submitted by the department the Information Officer will once again request confirmation of the nature of any references to European standards in the final draft text and will carry out a search for key references to standards.
Contact NSAI
Request NSAI Guide for Officials or if you have any further questions regarding this Directive, please forward your inquiries to the national contact point at NSAI at EUDirective2015.1535@nsai.ie