International Cooperation in Market Surveillance

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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 market
• Consumers
• Using a product safely
• Government
• Determining safety criteria and enforcement of
  legislation.

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Business Characteristics

• Responsible Businesses
• Well aware gt Advice
• Ignorant Businesses
• Not fully aware gt Advice and light enforcement
• Irresponsible Businesses / Free Riders
• Not wanting to comply gt Strict enforcement

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International Cooperation

• Most businesses operate internationally
• For an effective approach of irresponsible
  businesses we need
• Harmonised Legislation gt Legislators
• Harmonised Standards gt Standardisation
  organisations (CEN, ISO)
• Harmonised Market Surveillance gt Market
  Surveillance Authorities

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Cooperation of Market Surveillance Authorities in
the Product Safety Area

• The European Situation
• Prosafe
• The International Situation
• ICPSC

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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 Traceability
• Goods Conference Stockholm September 2009
• ICPHSO Washington 2010 with the OECD (?)
• 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 in Europe
  due to the New Legislative Framework and
  activities of Prosafe
• Internationally the same developments can be seen
  within ICPSC

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INFORMATION / QUESTIONS

• Websites
• www.emars.eu
• www.icpsc.org
• www.icphso.org
• E-mail dirk.meijer_at_emars.eu