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 ?
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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
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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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