The second joint rapporteur, Íñigo MÉNDEZ DE VIGO (EPP-ED, ES) acknowledged that the loss of the Constitutional Treaty had been a disappointment to some, saying "some of us were more ambitious than the Lisbon Treaty" but he saw the new treaty as "a political solution" to achieving ratification by all the Member States.
Regula ievieš visā ES vienotus darbības noteikumus tām iestādēm, kas veic atbilstības novērtēšanu, izveido vienādu tirgus uzraudzības sistēmu ES tehniski saskaņotajiem ražojumiem, kā arī trešo valstu ražojumu kontrolei.