Health

1
Health Consumer Protection Directorate General
CONFERENCE ON EUROPEAN MARKET SURVEILLANCE
PROGRAMMING

• IT Systems and projects to support cooperation
  among market surveillance authorities

Enrique Esteller Alberich Brussels, 10 March 2005
2
Ongoing systems and projects

• RAPEX rapid alert system for non food products
• Authority System feasibility assessment of the
  different options for interconnecting market
  surveillance authorities
• Businesses System IT tool for the notification
  by businesses of dangerous products to the
  authorities

3
RAPEX

• Rapid exchange of information system on
  (voluntary/compulsory) measures against products
  posing a serious risk

4
RAPEX
Authority A
Authority B
Contact points in Member States
Authority D
Authority C
DG B
DG A
DG Health and Consumer Protection
DG C
DG D
5
RAPEX

• Added value
• Rapid access to data
• Cross-border/cross-sector cooperation
• Indicators for more effective market surveillance
  actions
• Commissions assistance

6
RAPEX

• Open to applicant countries, Third countries and
  International organisations
• Grater transparency weekly reports in EUROPA -
  Consumer Affairs RAPEX

7
Authority System

• Objective to support cooperation of MS
  authorities
• Exchange of information and expertise
• Joint projects surveillance, recalls
• Options
• A central IT system
• An integration of IT systems

8
Business System

• Objective to provide an IT tool to be used by
  businesses to notify dangerous products to
  authorities
• Main features
• Multilingual system and form
• Sharing data
• Contact between authorities

9
Other systems

• CIRCA a collaborative workspace with patners of
  the European Institutions
• ICSMS information and Communication System for
  Market Surveillance

10
Thank you

• Enrique Esteller Alberich
• European Commission
• Office B232 6/103
• B - 1049 Brussels
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail enrique.esteller_at_cec.eu.int
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/consumers/cons_safe/prod
  _safe/index_en.htm