International Cooperation in Market Surveillance.pptVIP

Tel: +32 (02) 286 17 41 Rue Joseph II, 12-16, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium OECD Round Table on Consumer Empowerment and Responsible Business Behaviour http://www.emars.eu Facilitating closer cooperation between market surveillance officers to improve consumer product safety Facilitating closer cooperation between market surveillance officers to improve consumer product safety International Cooperation in Market Surveillance Dirk Meijer Chief Executive of Prosafe (www.emars.eu) Chairman of ICPSC () CONTENTS Role of the market parties Business characteristics International cooperation Conclusions Responsibilities of Market Parties Producers Placing safe products on the market Consumers Using a product safely Government Determining safety criteria and enforcement of legislation. Business Characteristics Responsible Businesses Well aware = Advice Ignorant Businesses Not fully aware = Advice and light enforcement Irresponsible Businesses / Free Riders Not wanting to comply = Strict enforcement International Cooperation Most businesses operate internationally For an effective approach of irresponsible businesses we need Harmonised Legislation = Legislators Harmonised Standards = Standardisation organisations (CEN, ISO) Harmonised Market Surveillance = Market Surveillance Authorities Cooperation of Market Surveillance Authorities in the Product Safety Area The European Situation Prosafe The International Situation ICPSC PROSAFE BACKGROUND The European Commission made an enormous effort in establishing a harmonised system of Legislation in the EU The efforts in setting up harmonised regulations will be hardly effective if the enforcement will not be harmonised Sudsidiarity and the New Legislative Framework Participation in Prosafe Projects International Context ICPSC Started in the ICPHSO conferences as the international forum around 2000 ()