EMARS Strategy Document

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EMARS Strategy Document
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WP5 Strategy Document

• Deliverable due at end of project
• Strategy document containing proposals for
  further enhancement of market surveillance based
  on outcome of EMARS project

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WP5 Strategy Document Drafting Process

• Start reflection on orientation now
• Background Memo being drafted
• First step identify and analysis background to
  strategy
• Opportunity for reflection at October EMARS
  workshop and Prosafe meeting in November

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EMARS Project

• EMARS should represent a step change
• in market surveillance in Europe
• Change in climate for co-operation should be
  demonstrated through
• Successful production of the deliverables
  foreseen under the project
• Contributions to other initiatives that
  demonstrate the added value of Prosafe

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EMARS Deliverables

• Knowledge Base
• Rapid Advice Forum
• Best Practice Handbook
• Strategy Document for Further Enhancement of
  Market Surveillance
• Improvement of contact with other sectors of
  market surveillance involved in consumer product
  safety
• Website

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Other EMARS Contributions

• Joint Actions
• Exchange of Officials
• Response to Emerging Priorities

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WP5 Strategy Document - Background

• Market Surveillance cornerstone of approach to
  internal market
• Requirements are placed on member states as
  result of Treaty obligations, New Approach, GPSD
  and Resolutions on Administrative Co-operation in
  Internal Market
• Previous initiatives - joint inspection
  programme, joint actions
• Revision of New Approach with regulation on
  market surveillance
• Forthcoming review of implementation of revised
  GPSD

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Background Opportunities

• Exchange of information
• Joint Actions
• Accident Data Analysis
• Co-operation Agreements
• Co-operation with customs and workplace safety
• Co-ordination with customs on risk assessment
• Rapex and safeguard clause

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Background - New Approach Revision

• Obligations placed on member states
• Exchange of information
• Information Support System
• Co-operation between Member States and CEC
• Sharing of resources
• Co-operation with customs
• Community Financing

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New Approach - Community Financing

• Drawing up and updating guidelines
• Inter-comparison activities/safeguard clause
• Technical expertise to assist CEC implementing
  Market surveillance administrative co-operation
  and decisions and safeguard clause cases
• Performance of preliminary or ancillary work in
  connection with market surveillance activities
  linked to implementation of Community legislation
• Technical assistance and co-operation with
  non-member states

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New Approach - Identified Sums from 2009

• Drawing up and updating guidelines (100k)
• Inter-comparison activities/safeguard clause (1
  M)
• Other technical and administrative assistance
  (500k)
• Extension of Rapex (200k)
• Development of ICSMS (400k)

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Vision for the future

• Prosafe continues its current core activities and
  those activities carried out under EMARS banner
  up to the end of 2008
• Prosafe builds up central resource capacity in
  secretariat after 2008
• Prosafe develops stable financial model

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Roles Prosafe could play? Information and
coordination

• Information exchange and coordination of market
  surveillance programs
• Stichting Prosafe as applicant for joint actions
• Support preparation and coordination of Joint
  Actions
• Coordinate pan-European co-operation with customs

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Roles Prosafe could play? Rapid Advice and
Analysis

• Information exchange RAF and Knowledge Base
• Link Knowledge Base to ICSMS and Rapex
• Coordination of follow-up of Rapex notifications
• Information analysis to help guide European
  priorities e.g. mandates, market surveillance
  plans and joint actions

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Roles Prosafe could play?Best Practice

• Maintain best practice handbook
• Develop new best practices

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Roles Prosafe could play? Training

• Development and delivery of training programs
• New inspectors and continuous training
• Technical assistance
• Staff exchange programmes

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Roles Prosafe could play?Management and
coordination

• Contribute to policy development
• Coordination of market surveillance authorities
  input to standards development
• Management and coordination of other functions
  currently undertaken by the European Commission
  e.g. Rapex, Mandates, Joint Actions

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How to move forward in future?

• Propose EMARS II as joint action or project for
  2008/2009 continue with important activities of
  EMARS but also investigate future format e.g.
  professional secretariat for Prosafe
• Is a funding model already available to allow
  Prosafe to continue activities commenced under
  EMARS?

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How to further develop ideas?

• Further editing of background Memo and
  preparation of first draft of strategy
• Cost estimates to be drawn up for different
  scenarios of activity after 2008
• Further discussion at Prosafe meeting in November
  and spring EMARS workshop