CHAPTER IV. Interpretative documents

Article 12

The Commission shall, after consulting the committee referred to in Article 19, instruct technical committees in which the Member States participate to draw up the interpretative documents referred to in Article 3 (3).

The interpretative documents shall:
(a) give concrete form to the essential requirements laid down in Article 3 and in Annex 1 by harmonizing the terminology and the technical bases and indicating classes or levels for each requirement where necessary and where the state of scientific and technical knowledge so permits;
(b) indicate methods of correlating these classes or levels of requirement with the technical specifications referred to in Article 4, for example, methods of calculation and of proof, technical rules for project design, etc.;
(c) serve as a reference for the establishment of harmonized standards and guidelines for European technical approval and for recognition of national technical specifications in accordance with Article 4 (3).

The Commission shall publish the interpretative documents in the 'C' series of the Official Journal Of the European Communities after soliciting the opinion of the committee referred to in Article 19.