1. Member States shall take all necessary steps to ensure that their standardisation bodies:
- communicate information in accordance with Articles 2 and 3,
- publish the draft standards in such a way that comments may also be obtained from parties established in other Member States,
- grant the other bodies referred to in Annex II the right to be involved passively or actively (by sending an observer) in the planned activities,
- do not object to a subject for standardisation in their work programme being discussed at European level in accordance with the rules laid down by the European standardisation bodies and undertake no action which may prejudice a decision in this regard.
2. Member States shall refrain in particular from any act of recognition, approval or use by reference to a national standard adopted in breach of Articles 2 and 3 and of paragraph 1 of this Article.