I don't think the article is concerned about manufacture, but about the rest of us. How can you as a consumer know the safety assurances a product has when it claims to conform to a given standard? If you can't read that standard... Maybe it isn't unreasonable to expect manufacturers pay a hundred euros for a standard (though I'd hate to), but it is unreasonable to expect the general public to do the same.

I hope I needn't explain why safety standards (as well as laws, regulations, and anything we rely on) should be open to public scrutiny.