(6)The predominance of national technical specifications used in procurement has led to fragmentation of the systems market and does not facilitate industrial cooperation at Community level; as a result, industry is particularly affected since it needs to considerably adapt its products for each national market; these practices render development and implementation of new technology unnecessarily difficult and slow down the introduction of new operational concepts that are required to increase capacity.
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New version applies from 04/12/2009.
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Later versions: 11/09/2018.
Recital 6 changes in this version: compare with the current text.