International Cooperation in Market Surveillance

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Facilitating closer cooperation between market surveillance officers to improve consumer product safetyFacilitating closer cooperation between market surveillance officers to improve consumer product safety

International Cooperation in Market Surveillance

Dirk Meijer

Chief Executive of Prosafe (www.emars.eu)

Chairman of ICPSC (www.icpsc.org)



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CONTENTS

• Role of the market parties

• Business characteristics

• International cooperation

• Conclusions



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Responsibilities of Market Parties

• Producers– Placing safe products on the marketPlacing safe products on the market

• Consumers– Using a product safelyUsing a product safely

• Government– Determining safety criteria and enforcement Determining safety criteria and enforcement

of legislation.of legislation.



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Business Characteristics

• Responsible Businesses– Well aware => AdviceWell aware => Advice

• Ignorant Businesses– Not fully aware => Advice and light Not fully aware => Advice and light

enforcementenforcement

• Irresponsible Businesses / Free Riders– Not wanting to comply => Strict Not wanting to comply => Strict

enforcementenforcement



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International Cooperation

• Most businesses operate internationally• For an effective approach of

irresponsible businesses we need– Harmonised Legislation => LegislatorsHarmonised Legislation => Legislators– Harmonised Standards => Standardisation Harmonised Standards => Standardisation

organisations (CEN, ISO)organisations (CEN, ISO)– Harmonised Market Surveillance => Harmonised Market Surveillance =>

Market Surveillance AuthoritiesMarket Surveillance Authorities



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Cooperation of Market Surveillance Authorities in the Product Safety Area

• The European Situation – ProsafeProsafe

• The International Situation– ICPSCICPSC



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PROSAFE BACKGROUND

• 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

• Sudsidiarity and the New Legislative Framework



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Participation in Prosafe Projects



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International Context ICPSC

• Started in the ICPHSO conferences as the international forum around 2000 (www.icphso.org)

• 2006 Bethesda Declaration which meant the “official” start of ICPSC as a meeting of market surveillance authorities on product safety



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Participants ICPSC

• USA (CPSC)• China (AQSIQ)• Canada (Health Canada)• Australia• New Zealand• South Korea• Japan• Mexico• Brasil• Europe (European Commission, (Member) States

& Prosafe)



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Workshops ICPSC

• To be organised in conjunction with other international events:– ICPHSO February 25 Mini Workshop on ICPHSO February 25 Mini Workshop on

TraceabilityTraceability– Goods Conference Stockholm September Goods Conference Stockholm September

20092009– ICPHSO Washington 2010 with the OECD ICPHSO Washington 2010 with the OECD

(?)(?)– ICPHSO Toronto (?)ICPHSO Toronto (?)



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CONCLUSIONS (1)

• To be able to empower consumers and keep business to their responsibilities we need international cooperation in:

• Legislation• Standardisation• Market Surveillance



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CONCLUSIONS (2)

• Cooperation in Market Surveillance:– Is becoming more and more formalised Is becoming more and more formalised

in Europe due to the New Legislative in Europe due to the New Legislative Framework and activities of ProsafeFramework and activities of Prosafe

– Internationally the same developments Internationally the same developments can be seen within ICPSCcan be seen within ICPSC



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INFORMATION / QUESTIONS

• Websites:– www.emars.euwww.emars.eu– www.icpsc.orgwww.icpsc.org– www.icphso.orgwww.icphso.org

• E-mail: [email protected]

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