Compliance Standards Watch
The law sets the obligation. Harmonised standards decide what satisfying it looks like, and none of them exist yet. Grecta tracks every draft, citation and supersession against your product profile, and tells you what moved. BETA - expected release Q3 2026.
The regulation is stable. The ground under it is not.
Multiple regimes grant a presumption of conformity to products built to harmonised standards. The standards are still being written, and every one that lands changes what compliant means for products already on the market.
Tracks the standard, not the news.
Each obligation is shown as met, open or not applicable, with the reasoning written out and the evidence attached.
Maps it to your product.
A standard only matters if it touches the essential requirement your product relies on. Grecta resolves which ones apply to your profile and ignores the rest.
Warns you before the presumption lapses.
When a cited standard is superseded, the old version stops conferring presumption on a fixed date. That date is a deadline, and it is the one nobody has in their calendar.
The frameworks and requirements are settled. The standards that define how you meet them still not.
From work programme to your product
Grecta indexes the standardisation requests, the work programmes answering them, and every deliverable inside those programmes. Each deliverable is mapped to the essential requirements it is intended to cover, and those requirements are already bound to your product profile. When a deliverable moves stage, the products it touches are flagged with what changed and what it means.
Connect sources, derive position, publish link
Every deliverable under the relevant standardisation requests is tracked by stage: drafting, public enquiry, formal vote, publication, citation in the Official Journal, supersession. Each standard is tied to the essential requirements it is drafted to satisfy, and those requirements are already mapped to your product from your existing profile.
When a standard is cited, amended or superseded, the affected products are flagged with the specific requirement touched, the date the change bites, and what it does to your current justification.
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standards bodies (CEN, CENELEC, ETSI)
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stages tracked — drafting, public enquiry, formal vote, publication, citation, supersession.
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essential requirements mapped
What lands in your inbox and to-do list, and why it matters
Stage, not headline
A draft at public enquiry and a standard cited in the Official Journal have completely different consequences, and most coverage treats them the same. Every item carries the stage it is at and what that stage actually obliges you to do, which is frequently nothing yet.
Relevance filtered by product
Seventeen vertical drafts covering Annex III product categories matter enormously to three of them and not at all to the rest. You see the ones touching requirements your product is already mapped against.
Supersession dates
When a cited standard is replaced, the superseded version carries a date after which it no longer confers presumption of conformity. That date is the real deadline, it arrives without announcement, and it is what turns a compliant product into a non-compliant one while nothing about the product changed.
Impact on your existing justification
Where no harmonised standard exists, you are demonstrating conformity by your own technical reasoning. When a standard finally lands covering that requirement, your reasoning is measured against it. Grecta shows you which parts of your current justification a new standard replaces.
Who Standards Watch impacts the most
Connected products in CRA Annex III categories.
Seventeen vertical final draft standards entered formal approval in August 2026, with enquiry windows closing through November. If your product sits in one of those categories, the document defining your conformity route is being written right now and you can still comment on it.
Providers of high-risk AI systems
The JTC 21 work programme is the only route to a presumption of conformity under Article 40 of the AI Act. It missed its original April 2025 deadline, is running under an acceleration programme, and the amended standardisation request expires in February 2027. Everything you build against in the meantime is provisional.
Medical device and health technology manufacturers
MDR harmonised standards, AI Act deliverables and CRA horizontal standards all land on the same product, and the same essential requirement can be addressed by more than one of them. Tracking three standards programmes separately is where the contradictions get missed.
Machinery and industrial equipment
The Machinery Regulation applies from January 2027 with its own harmonised standards programme, stacking onto CRA obligations for anything with digital elements. Two standardisation tracks, one product, one technical file.
Know your compliance status before the citation lands
Map your product once and see every standard in flight that touches it, with the date each one starts to matter. Join the pilot, or ask for a sample standards delta report for your product category.
Join the pilotFAQ
A harmonised standard is a European standard drafted in response to a Commission standardisation request. It becomes legally significant only when its reference is cited in the Official Journal. From that point, conforming to it gives a presumption of conformity with the essential requirements it covers, under Article 40 of the AI Act and Article 27 of the CRA. A published EN that has not been cited is a useful technical document and nothing more.
You choose, per product. Public passports are open and indexable and can be linked from your website or your RFP responses. Private passports are access-controlled, issued per buyer, revocable, and logged so you know who opened them and when. Most companies run both.
That is precisely the situation it exists for. Today every manufacturer under the CRA and the AI Act is demonstrating conformity by their own technical reasoning, with no presumption available. Over the next fifteen months, standards will start being cited, and each citation changes the benchmark your reasoning is judged against. Knowing which ones are coming, when, and which of your requirements they touch is the difference between adjusting early and rebuilding a technical file under deadline.
The superseded version carries a date of cessation of presumption of conformity. After that date, building to the old version no longer gives you the presumption, even though your product has not changed and nobody has written to tell you. Grecta flags the supersession when it is cited, names the affected requirement, and gives you the date.
CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, including the JTC 21 programme for the AI Act and the horizontal and vertical programmes for the CRA, together with the relevant programmes for the Machinery Regulation, MDR and the wider New Legislative Framework where they touch products in scope.
No, and this is where people get caught. It gives a presumption of conformity with the essential requirements the standard covers, which is rebuttable and partial. Requirements the standard does not address still need demonstrating, and the presumption relates to conformity assessment, not to every obligation the regime imposes. Anyone telling you a standard makes you compliant is selling something.
A national standards body sells you the documents. Standards Watch tells you which of them apply to your product, what stage each one is at, what changes when it moves, and which part of your existing technical justification it affects. You will still need to buy the standards themselves, and we will tell you which ones are worth buying.
Regulatory change, without the monitoring
When a harmonised standard is cited, amended or superseded, we work out what it means for products like yours. One email, only when something actually happens.
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