Global standards entering the EU via national systems

The contribution answers the research question how global standards are incorporated in the EU, not via EU institutions, but via national systems. We therefore leave the strict confines of EU law and stress the bottom up influence that member states have in the introduction of global standards within the EU legal sphere. Accordingly, this contribution describes less visible and tracible forms of incorporation of global standards. The focus lies on standards that provide technical and commercial solutions for problems of products, goods and services, which often arise in the relationship between economic, scientific, technical and social partners. Especially issues of accessibility, representativeness and their position within the hierarchy of norms will be discussed in a comparative way and influence the regulatory governance in times of turbulence, disruptive technologies and crises of trust, specifically looking at actors, dynamics and legitimacy