The objective of the contract is to provide technical assistance to CEDR. The Contractor will work under the responsibility of CEDR's Working Group Harmonisation and standards to provide guidance for the Executive Board.

It is foreseen the initial work includes interviews with members of CEDR groups (a.o. ‘standardisation & harmonisation’) as well as other stakeholders within CEDR member organisations and possibly a short literature study.

The analyses should include the following subjects:

— Public procurement;

o Open single European market vs safety safeguards (ECJ case C-100/13 & CPR art. 18);

— The process of producing harmonised standards and the role of the EC and road authorities in it;

o Mandates (EC -> CEN) in relation to specification of infrastructural works;

o Classes and levels (and their future demise);

— Notified bodies (Technical Assessment Bodies);

o Quality control on TAB's;

o Historical test results;

Road restraint systems;

…;

— EAD's and voluntary CE-marking;

o How is exhaustiveness guaranteed with CE-marks based on a EAD?

— DOP's;

o Communication of product data not allowed on the DOP;

— Retraceability of constituents;

— Boundary between construction products (incl. kits) and civil engineering works.

The analyses shall review these subjects within the framework of the CPR, the public procurement directive (2014/24/EU) and applicable national legislation in relation to the operations of national road authorities. The analyses shall identify for each issue which CEDR members are (negatively) affected and how.