Skip to content
Scope
France
  1. Help
  2. TRIS notifications

What a TRIS notification is

  • Verified on
  • Scope Europe

A TRIS notification is the draft technical rule a member state must submit to the Commission, then hold back, before adopting it.

The European mechanism that makes national technical rules visible before they are adopted.

In detail

Before adopting a national technical rule, on a product, a digital service, a labelling standard or a composition requirement, a member state must notify it to the Commission. A period then opens during which it cannot adopt the rule, and during which the Commission and the other member states can react.

Why it concerns you

This mechanism shows you a national regulation before it exists, including in a country where you have no monitoring in place. For a company that sells in several member states, a TRIS notification is often the first warning of a constraint to come.

And on a French file, it is the reverse that is useful: seeing that another state has notified a comparable measure, and reading what the Commission said about it.

Where it is in Dixit

Search > Procedures, the TRIS notifications tab. The database is updated regularly from the official source.