Global standards affect regulatory autonomy in a number of different domains: product technical requirements, food safety, aviation safety, environmental protection, financial regulation. Even though the EU could in theory try to compete with this process, in practice it is often de facto complying with global standards. At the same time, the EU tends to – and, sometimes, succeeds in – using global standard setting for its own regulatory purposes. The panel aims at focusing on the EU‘s strategy (or, better, strategies) vis-à-vis global norms. On the one hand, it will examine the implementation of global standards. Do implementation techniques follow a recurrent model? What can be the reasons for diverging strategies in different sectors? On the other hand, the ways through which the EU tries to influence global standard setting will be analyzed. Can the EU effectively influence the content of global norms and can it contribute to the accountability of global standard setters?