RAPEX

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RAPEX

• Natalie CHEVALLIER
• Forum on Market Surveillance and Consumers
  Protection

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• Presentation of the system
• Member States obligation
• Commissions role
• Future of RAPEX

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Presentation of the system

• RAPEX Rapid Alert System for Non-Food Products
• General Product Safety Directive (2001/95/EC)
• Definition
• Objectives

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Member States obligations

• Notification procedure
• Measures on products
• voluntary measures
• serious and immediate risk
• under certain conditions, risk of national scope

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Commissions role

• check the notifications
• inform other Member States
• can propose additional measures
• safeguard mechanism

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RAPEX SYSTEM
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Consumer Alert Notification
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Notification Form
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Notification Form
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Reactions from MS
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Reactions to notification
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Commissions role

• Effective administration of the system
• handling of 388 notifications in 2004
• weekly reports on EUROPA Website
• Publication of Guidelines
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/health_consumer/dyna
  /rapex/rapex_en.cfm

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RAPEX

• Forum on Market Surveillance and Consumers
  Protection

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Future of RAPEX

• MoUs
• Revision of the New Approach / Global Approach
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/newapproach/i
  ndex_en.htm

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• Natalie CHEVALLIER
• Forum on Market Surveillance and Consumers
  Protection