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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
und Lebensmittelsicherheit
TAIEX Seminar IV.Session Part 3 Organisation
and Infrastructure of Market Inspection and
Surveillance Germany especially in Lower Saxony
Astrid Rohrdanz Federal State Office for
Consumer Protection and Food Safety (Lower
Saxony) Institute for Consumption Goods Lüneburg
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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
und Lebensmittelsicherheit
Federal Republic of Germany
Lower Saxony
Lüneburg
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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
und Lebensmittelsicherheit
16 federal states
Federal Republic of Germany
different legal foundationsfor detergents and
cleaning agents
Different authorithies for supervision
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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
und Lebensmittelsicherheit
legal foundationsfor detergents and cleaning
agents
Detergent Regulation and Washing and Cleaning act
Chemical Act
Food and Feed Act
Calibration Act
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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
und Lebensmittelsicherheit
Authorities for supervision
Detergent Regulation and Washing and Cleaning act
different in all federal states
Ministries
Environmental officesor State laboratories
competent for the surveillance in practice
district offices
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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
und Lebensmittelsicherheit
In each federal state one person is contact
person for the execution of the detergents
regulation and washing and cleaning act
They often assist the employees of the district
authorities by surveillance, especially by
planning and inspecting companies and their
warehouses.
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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
und Lebensmittelsicherheit
Authorities for supervision
Food and Feed Act
in all federal states identical
Ministeries of the federal states
District authorities inspections,
sampling
State laboratories investigation and
judgement of samples
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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
und Lebensmittelsicherheit
legal foundationsfor detergents and cleaning
agents
Chemical Act
Calibration Act
Ministries of the federal states
Trade Supervisory board
Office of Weights and Measure
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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
und Lebensmittelsicherheit
Lower saxony
The same district authorities are competent for
thesurveillance of Detergents Regulation,
Washing and Cleaning Act and also Food and Feed
Law
Realization of inspection and samplingis
uncomplicated
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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
und Lebensmittelsicherheit
Lower saxony

Contact person for execution of the detergents
regulation and washing and cleaning actDr.
Astrid Rohrdanz LAVES, IfB Lüneburg

• advisaring function
• assist the district authorities
• judgement of the results of investigations

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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
und Lebensmittelsicherheit
Ministry for the Environment
Federal Republic of Germany

Federal Environmental Agency
Ministries of federal statese.g. Lower Saxony
Different authorithies for supervision
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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
und Lebensmittelsicherheit

• Federal Environmental Agencyspecial
  responsibilities
• competent authority the member states shall
  appoint for several duties (Article 5 and 8 of
  the Detergents Regulation)
• not competent for supervision in the federal
  states

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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
und Lebensmittelsicherheit

• To harmonize the surveillance of detergents and
  cleaning agents
• a yearly meeting takes place with Federal
  Environmental Agency and all reponsible
  persons for execution of the detergents
  regulation
• a concept of execution was developed

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Niedersächsisches Landesamtfür Verbraucherschutz
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