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Activities of MARS WP.6 UNECE
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Activities of the UNECE MARS Group by Mr.
Arpád Gonda President of SOSMT,
Bratislava Geneva, 24 26 October 2005
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Ladies and gentlemen,   welcome to the Second
UNECE International Forum on Market Surveillance
and Consumer Protection, which takes place in
frame of the 15th. meeting of the Working Party
on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization
Policies. Its goal is above all identify good
practices in the area of market surveillance, to
look into current problems of operating market
surveillance systems and to consider areas of
interest for trans-national cooperation.
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Nowadays is much more demanding to ensure the
competitiveness with regard to growing
requirements for enterpreneurship, which close
relates to such aspects, as are the increasing
consumersrequirements, rapid technical and
technological changes and greater requirements
for protection of environment and all these
aspects under conditions (in the atmosphere) of
satisfied market.
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Into focus comes not only the economical aspect,
expressed by the requirements for high
performance and low costs, but innovation shall
be supported by the ability to reduce time,
necessary for getting products on the market.
Increasing consumers requirements shall be
fulfiled by the products and services of higher
quality. Common concern of public authorities and
consumer is safety of products, which is also
covered by the European Directive 2001/95/EC on
general safety of products. The global market
provide the business sphere with the enlargement
of the area for business, new investment
opportunities and penetration of entrepreneur
subjects at the world market.
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European Commission has determined a direct
framework of these bodies by which they must
proceed when the system of market surveillance is
concerned. Market surveillance is the main
instrument for implementation of New Approach
Directives via measures in order to monitor that
all products are in accord with requirements of
directives in force as well as to monitor that
appropriate sanctions has been imposed in case
that products were not in accord with directives
in force. The main goal of this procedure is to
protect not only consumers interests, staff and
other users but also interests of economic
keepers against unfair competition.
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http//www.prosafe.org
Directive on General Safety of Products provides
exact description of obligations for Member
States of EU to organise market surveillance and
to implement appropriate instrument of
inspection. This Directive can be used as
a reference for market surveillance operated
within New Approach Directives regarding to
consumer goods.
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Member States must ensure efficient communication
and co-ordination on national level within market
surveillance bodies and other bodies working in
the field of goods safety (bodies for safety and
human health and customs bodies). Measures within
the analysis of risks and management of risk put
forward by market surveillance bodies should
correlate with activities of customs bodies.
Market surveillance is efficient when resources
are focused on the fields with higher risk of
discord or when particular interest may be
identified.
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http//europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/health_consumer/dyna
/rapex/rapex_en.cfm
RAPEX - Rapid Alert System for Non-Food Products
PRODUCT SAFETY IN EUROPE A Guide to corrective
action including recalls
http//europa.eu.int/comm/consumers/cons_safe/acti
on_guide_en.pdf
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First International Forum on Market Surveillance
initiated the establishment of the Advisory
Group of Experts on Market Surveillance, which
works within the WG.6. At this plathorm take
place meetings of market surveillance
representantives from Europe and countries of
Community of Independent States, European
Commission representantives and UNECE Secretary,
as well as the representatives of private sector
and consumers organisations. Slovak Republic is
very proud of being entrusted with this task.
Since its establishment three meetings of this ad
hoc group has been organised in famous mountains
and spa of the Slovak Republic.
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First meeting - Pieštany September 2003
Selection of the market surveillance priority
for succesful global co-operation

• Establishment of Groups of facilitators for
  individual topics
• Terminology
• Information exchange
• Reference list self-assessment
• Possibility of adapting ISO 9000 or other quality
  management systems to the work of Market
  Surveillance

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market surveillance priority for succesful global
co-operation

• Product liability and legal framework
• Protection of consumers against fraud and
  counterfeited goods
• Generic guidelines for good practice in Market
  Surveillance

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• Second meeting in April 2004, High Tatras
• Goals for further work
• to improve the mutual cooperation between
  organizations responsible for and carying out
  market inspections on the one hand and between
  these organizations and custom authorities and
  police on the other hand
• to suggest solutions on how to improve
  cooperation with manufacturers and importers of
  brand name products, to enable the market
  authorities to identifiy counterfeit and
  non-authentic products
• to recommend to Governments to consider
  introducing a quality systems within Market
  Surveillance authorities

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• Goals for further work
• - to examine the possibility of using an
  information exchange system on dangerous products
• - to draw up Guidelines on Good Practices in
  Market Surveillance Activities
• to enhance consumer awareness by cooperation with
  public authorities and organizations responsible
  for consumer protection
• to collect the results and present them to the
  WP.6 plenary session
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Third MARS meeting in April 2005,High Tatras

• In conjuction with CEFTA meeting on conformity
  assessment and market surveillance

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MARS and CEFTA 2005

• joint discussions and contributions from national
  from various sub-regions.
• shared information on the current situation of
  Market Surveillance in various countries,
  particularly in those which had already acceded
  to the European Union and in candidate countries.
  
• importance of closer cooperation at national
  level between different Market Surveillance
  authorities
• new participants in MARS facilitator tasks

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MARS global co-operation
 
For facilitating the trade and fair
competition having only white sheeps on the
market

• For better protection of consumers
• and environment
• For better quality of life

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• Invitation to joint to the facilitator groups
• Terminology (Bulgarien)
• Information exchange
• Reference list
• Quality system of Market Surveillance
• Product liability and legal framework
• Anti fraud and conterfeited goods
• Generic guidelines for good practice

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High Tatras ( March 2006 ?)
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Slovak Office of Standards, Metrology and
Testing looking forward to meet you on the neext
MARS meeting