UNECE – WP 6 on Regulatory cooperation Panel Session 1 – Market surveillance model initiative...

UNECE – WP 6 on Regulatory cooperation

Panel Session 1 – Market surveillance model initiative

Geneva, 2008-11-03

By Guido De Jongh

CEN/Management Centre - Brussels

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Market surveillance and Standards: how to better co-operate ?

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Greater involvement of market surveillance bodies in

standardization at national and European level

Strengthening cooperation between Standardisation bodies and

Market Surveillance bodies in order to keep standards up to date in

their field of interest


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CEN/Technical Committee

Directive (NA, GPSD,..)

ENs

National Standards Bodies

Market Surveillance Authority

ProsafeToys, PPE

Machinery,

Rapex information system

Rapex information system

National Market Surveillance AuthoritiesNational Customs Authorities

Custom Authority

Forum (?) ***?

Notified body

Market surveillance and Standards: how to better co-operate ?


Interpretation of the standard

The need is for a quick and informal advice

Better co-operation between Member States: EMARS project


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Market surveillance and Standards: Practical issues


market surveillance and confidence in marking

One finding"Lack of market surveillance also reduces the confidence in the CE-mark since products might be CE marked and circulate freely on the internal market even if they are not safe or in compliance with relevant directives. This leads to a situation where room is given to other labels, private and/or national, that require costly third party certification for manufacturers. Those labels are often owned by one single company which means that the manufacturer must use a certain test house to get access to a certain market. As a result of lacking market surveillance a lot of producers are feel compelled to use costly ways to gain confidence for their products on the market.“

Source: study on 3 directives, for Teknikföretagen, the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries


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