The Interstate Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification of the Commonwealth of Independence States (CIS) The report of 13th session of working group in field of market surveillance

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The Interstate Council for Standardization,
Metrology and Certification of the Commonwealth
of Independence States (CIS) The report of 13th
session of working group in field of market
surveillance

• Stockholm, 27-29 May 2009
• Maria Bizgu
• Ministry of Economy and Trade
• of the Republic of Moldova

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Venue, participants

• The session of working party took place
• on 26-27 March in Chisinau. The host was the
  Ministry of Economy and Trade.
• In the session have participated the
  representatives from
• Azerbadjan
• Belarus
• Kyrgyzstan
• Republic of Moldova
• Russian Federation
• Uzbekistan
• Executive committee of CIS
• Biurau EASC

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Agenda

• The main issues which have been discussed
• Regarding the specialized controls in 2009
• The ways of collaboration of Market surveillance
  authorities
• The implementation of the risk assessment into
  the Market surveillance activity
• Follow-up to the WP.6 UNECE annual session in
  November 2008, chapter Market surveillance
• New EU Legislative Framework and the future
  implementation into the national legislation
  (Regulation 765/2008/EC - requirements for market
  surveillance relating to the marketing of
  products)

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Recommendations of working group
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Regarding the specialized controls in 2009

• According to the previous decisions of
  working group there is established a list of
  priorities in market surveillance activity
  performed in CIS, and in this respect for each
  year (or half a year) from this list it is
  chosen one group of products and in the same time
  performed control in each countries.
• The results are generalized, and the
  results with some proposals are presented at the
  next meeting of working group.
• For this year for the specialized control
  was chosen the group of products electrical
  tools for renovation and construction.

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The ways of collaboration of Market surveillance
authorities

• The collaboration of Market surveillance
  authorities in CIS is on the systematical basis.
  In The Interstate Council has been created a
  working group of representatives of Market
  surveillance authorities of CIS.
• During the last session in Chisinau It was
  discussed the amendment to the document ???
  32-2006 The ways of collaboration of Market
  surveillance authorities, regarding the exchange
  information system on the dangerous products
  revealed on the market

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The implementation of the risk assessment into
the Market surveillance practice

• As a result of discussion it was mentioned and
  emphasised the crucial role of the risk
  assessment in the choice of market surveillance
  procedures and in the scope of
• achieving of a high level proving of reasons of
  control
• avoiding of excess of controls
• avoiding of the overlap in the control activity
• It was decided to focus in the future the
  activity of working group on the elaboration of
  common documents for CIS (guide or
  recommendations) regarding the methods and ways
  of using of the risk assessment in the market
  surveillance activity

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Follow-up to the WP.6 UNECE annual session in
November 2008, chapter Market surveillance

• As it was provided by p.71 of eighteenth session
  (on 3 and 4 November 2008 Report of the WP.6,
  the Market Surveillance Model Initiative was
  included in the agenda of the meeting of the
  Group.
• In the opinion of the participants of
  meeting the model procedure would be a good
  support as a guide in the Market surveillance
  activity.
• It was decided to collect the proposals
  of market surveillance authorities regarding the
  structure and content of the procedure,
  applicable in CIS.
• The proposals will be generalized by Ministry of
  Economy and Trade of Republic of Moldova and
  they will be discussed at next 14th meeting of
  working group.
• It was underlined the opportunity of
  participation of the representatives of CIS
  market surveillance authorities in in the WP.6
  activity

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New EU Legislative Framework and the future
implementation into the national legislation
(Regulation 765/2008/EC - requirements for market
surveillance relating to the marketing of
products)

• It was recommended to the national market
  surveillance authorities to transpose into
  national legislation the EU regulation
  765/2008/EC as much as it is possible, in order
  to achieve the same principles and the same
  approach in the market surveillance activity.
• In this respect it was underlined the
  necessity of a good understanding of EU
  regulation and it was suggested to organize
  trainings for policy makers

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Conclusions

• The goal of CIS working group is the same as of
  the MARS group- to find through communication and
  exchange of experience the best solutions

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