CE Marking, Business, and European Market Integration

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9629486
AutoresGrace Ballor (0000-0003-3096-7629, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen96
Número1
Páginas77-108
Fecha de publicación2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Business History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0007680521000696
OpenAlexW4293192988
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas31

Many products—from consumer electronics to children's toys—bear the CE mark, the symbol of conformity to the “essential requirements” of European standards. This article traces the development of CE marking from its origins in the European Community's (EC) efforts to relaunch the Single European Market in the mid-1980s to its full implementation in the mid-1990s across the European Economic Area (EEA). It focuses in particular on the reforms made to the “New Approach to Technical Harmonization” and the “Global Approach to Testing and Certification” and examines the ways business groups responded to the creation of common systems for assessing conformité européenne . This history offers an expansive view of regional market integration and a new perspective on the dynamic between companies and regulators in the European business environment

Business · Certification · Conformity · Economics · Economy · European community · European market · European union · Expansive · Harmonization · International trade · Management · Political science · Single market · Standardization · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · International Labor and Employment Law · Law