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 ПМГ 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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