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That's CEN, not EU

Yes, CEN, an public official standards body recognized by the EU, and whose members are "all member states of the European Union":

CEN is officially recognized as a European standards body by the European Union, European Free Trade Association and the United Kingdom; the other official European standards bodies are the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

You seem to be making the (rather common) mistake of confusing European organisations with EU institutions. CEN is not a part of the EU. It was founded to establish standards among European countries long before the EU even existed, and it has members outside the EU as well. The EU does indeed recognize it, as does the UK (and did long before the EU even existed), but the EU didn't create it and doesn't control it.

>but the EU didn't create it and doesn't control it.

Doesn't have to, just have to embrace and enforce its standards.

(Btw, I'm from the EU, thanks for the lecture on Europe vs the EU, who would have thought!).

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