The publisher
Standards Drift publishes everything on this site. It is independently operated and self-funded.
It takes no funding, sponsorship, membership fee or payment in kind from the European Commission, from any European standardisation organisation, from any trade association, or from any company whose products fall under the regimes tracked here. There is no advertising and no paid placement. Nothing on the site is written for a client.
The archive is published under an organisational name rather than a personal one. Everything that would let you check the work is on the site already: the method is set out in full, every figure links to the instrument that carries it, and the full dataset is downloadable. The record should stand on its sources, not on a byline.
What is published here, and what is not
We publish what the official record said, on the date it said it. Every number links to the instrument that carries it, and once a monthly record closes it is never rewritten.
We do not publish forecasts. We do not publish legal advice. We do not publish a slippage figure we cannot show the receipts for. Where a date moved in the past, we reconstruct it from the instruments themselves and link each one, rather than asserting it.
The archive began capturing on 10 August 2026. Everything before that date is reconstructed from primary sources and labelled as such.
How to cite this
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For a specific month, cite that month's page, because it is frozen and will still say the same thing when your reader follows the link:
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Corrections
If something here is wrong, write to support@standardsdrift.com and say which page and which figure. Getting it right matters more to us than being first.
A closed monthly record is never silently edited. If one turns out to carry an error, the correction is published as a dated note on that page, saying what was wrong and when it was fixed, with the original text left visible. That is the same standard we hold the official record to.
Sources
The archive captures the European Commission's harmonised standards pages and the relevant EUR-Lex instruments daily. The full source list and the capture method are on the method section. Where a source fails, the run is recorded as an error and retried, never treated as a change.