> I was very pleased when we stopped doing that and I got to get rid of that stuff.

Well, that happened all without any regulatory intervention.

> It's OK to have a common standard, and to stick with it. (It's also OK to draft a new standard when the old one turns old-and-busted somehow.)

If you want to introduce a new standard in the EU now, you have to win a beauty contest with the regulators and their lobbyists. Good luck!