Free movements of goods: exchange of information on national measures

The purpose of the draft decision was to establish a simple procedure whereby the Member States and the Commission would exchange information in order to enable the Community to administer in a transparent and pragmatic manner the mutual recognition of national legislation which had not been the subject of Community harmonisation. The proposed procedure concerned four categories of decision: - general prohibition of a design or type of product; - refusal of marketing authorisation; - modification of a contested design or type of product with a view to making it marketable; - withdrawal from the market. The procedure for exchanging information would only relate to the final decision taken on the product in question and not to previous measures taken for the sole purpose of formulating the final decision (precautionary and investigative measures). In addition, the procedure would only cover cases that were not already covered by the existing notification procedures for which Community legislation provided. �