Države članice sprejmejo vse potrebne ukrepe za zagotovitev, da med pripravo evropskega standarda, navedenega v prvi alinei člena 6(3), ali po njegovi odobritvi njihovi standardizacijski organi ne sprejmejo nobenega ukrepa, ki bi lahko vplival na načrtovano uskladitev, in zlasti, da na zadevnem področju ne objavijo novega ali revidiranega nacionalnega standarda, ki ni popolnoma usklajen s sedanjim evropskim standardom.
Member States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that, during the preparation of a European standard referred to in the first indent of Article 6(3) or after its approval, their standardisation bodies do not take any action which could prejudice the harmonisation intended and, in particular, that they do not publish in the field in question a new or revised national standard which is not completely in line with an existing European standard.