Just to share, this is the formal feedback from EUR-lex:
Please find the explanation the Author of this document has sent to us:
EN980:2008 (Symbols for use in the labelling of medical devices) has been deleted from Harmonized Standard and is intended to be superseded by new standard EN ISO 15223-1:2012.
However, due to deficiencies of the new standard, our services had to delete it from the OJ publication and, to this end, in the standards publication database. According to the program of this database, the superseded standard EN 980:2008 was unfortunately deleted as well. This is linked to the fact that CEN-CENELEC loads-up the standards in the standards publication database, and the Commission's role is limited to deleting deficient standards. The Commission cannot re-introduce standards into the database.
Our services are of course not pleased with the deletion of the superseded standard. Accordingly, the standards publication database now needs to be re-programmed to avoid the automatic disappearance of superseded standards in case of deletion of deficient new (superseding) standards. Pending this re-programming, we will try to re-insert EN 980:2008 into the next publication.
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