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Enforcement and Product Safety

• Dirk H. Meijer
• Immediate Past President of PROSAFE
• Project leader of the EMARS project
• Chairman of ICPSC
• Regional Director Southwest
• Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority
• The Netherlands

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Contents of the Presentation

• Role of the players in the field
• Harmonisation of Legislation
• Harmonisation of Market Surveillance
• PROSAFE
• EMARS
• ICPSC
• Conclusions

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Marketsurveillance and Responsabilities

• Producers
• Placing safe products on the market
• Consumers
• Using a product safely
• Government
• Determining safety criteria and enforcement of
  legislation.

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Harmonised Legislation

• 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

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PROSAFE

• Informal organisation since 1991
• Market Surveillance Organisations
• Throughout Europe
• Safety of Consumer Products
• 2002 Legal entity as Dutch Stichting
• 2007 Recognized by the EC as formal applicant

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PROSAFE

• Provides, collects and exchanges information on
  dangerous products
• Encourages and enhances cooperation in product
  safety
• Improves market surveillance
• Develops understanding and practical solutions of
  common problems
• Builds mutual confidence in product safety issues

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The aim of PROSAFE effective, efficient, and
fair enforcement in Europe
Members Market Surveillance and Enforcement
Organisations in EU, Candidate countries,
Norway, Iceland, Switzerland
OBSERVERS European Commission / EFTA / ANEC /
Eurosafe / Business organisations
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PROSAFE Project EMARS 2006 - 2008 Enhancing
Marketsurveillance through Best Practice
Core Objective Basic level of best practice
techniques cross-sharing of information
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Foreseen outcome of project

• Knowledge base
• Advise body
• Handbook best practise techniques
• Handbook risk assessment
• Strategy document
• Improvement of market surveillance

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International cooperation between regulators

• ICPSC The International Consumer Product Safety
  Caucus
• Global
• Informal network
• Linked with Prosafe

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International cooperation between regulators

• Objectives
• High level of consumer product safety
• developing cooperation arrangements
• facilitate surveillance and enforcement
• exchanging information on best practices
• identifying common needs
• guidelines for international standards.

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Future Developments

• Future Developments of Prosafe
• EMARS II
• Joint Actions
• Playground equipment (Poland)
• Lighting Chains (Hungary)
• Lighters
• Sunbeds
• Toys
• Cords and draw strings
• Collaborative Studies

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Conclusions

• Within Europe we are on the brink of a
  structurized approach on Market Surveillance and
  Enforcement on a harmonized European Level.
• Globally we can see the start of an analogous
  development