Market Surveillance

International Co Operation

James Spiteri

Engineer - Market Surveillance

Directorate

Technical Regulations Division

International Co Operation

• Twenty Eight Member States + EEA Countries

• Different National legislation

• One Market

• Different Platforms to achieve Co Operation

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ADCO

• European cooperation on market surveillance takes

place through informal groups of market surveillance

authorities, called Administrative Cooperation

Groups (AdCos). They meet several times per year

to discuss market surveillance issues in their area of

competence, and to ensure efficient, comprehensive

and consistent market surveillance. The AdCos may

also choose to extend their remit to encompass other

relevant bodies on a case-by-case basis (e.g. testing

laboratories, inspection and certification bodies and

other organisations). Malta Competition and Consumer

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ADCO Objectives

• To guarantee proper and uniform application of the

provisions of the legislation within the Single Market

• To increase the efficiency of market surveillance

throughout the Single Market bearing in mind the

existence of different systems in EU countries

• To establish appropriate communication channels

between national administrations and the

Commission

• To setup and coordinate common actions such as

cross border market surveillance activities

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ADCO Objectives Cont.

• To exchange views, reinforce cooperation on

conformity assessment practices as well as

individual cases, and solve practical problems

• To develop common practices and methodologies

• To inform each other of national methods and

activities to develop and promote best practices

• To identify issues of shared interest relating to

market surveillance and suggest common

approaches on these.

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ADCO Co Ordination

• The Commission supports and organises cooperation

between the market surveillance authorities. There are

currently more than 25 AdCos. Each group meets once,

twice or more times per year. The groups work to a

great extent autonomously.

• Furthermore, the Commission regularly organises

horizontal meetings in Brussels where the Chairpersons

of the different AdCos participate. These meetings aim

at promoting cooperation and exchanges of views, and

helping AdCo chairpersons in their work.

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ADCO List • Equipment and protective systems intended for use in

potentially Explosive Atmospheres – Directive

2014/34/EU (ATEX)

• Cableways – Directive 2000/9/EC (CABLE)

• Medical Devices – Directive 93/42/EEC (COEN)

• Construction Products – Regulation (EU) No

305/2011 (CPR)

• Cosmetics - Regulation (EU) No 1223/2009 (PEMSAC)

• Eco-design – Directive 2009/125/EC (ECOD)

• Explosives for Civil Uses – Directive 2014/28/EU (CIVEX)

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ADCO List

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• Electromagnetic Compatibility – Directive

2014/30/EU (EMC)

• Energy Labelling – Directive 2010/30/EU (ENERLAB)

• Gas Appliances – Directive 2009/142/CE (GAD)

• Lifts and safety components for lifts – Directive

2014/33/EU (LIFTS)

• Low Voltage – Directive 2006/95/EC (LVD)

• Machinery – Directive 2006/42/EC (MACHINE)

• Chemicals – Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH)

ADCO List

• Marine Equipment – Directive 96/98/EC (MED)

• Noise – Directive 2000/14/EC (NOISE)

• Pressure Equipment sector – Directives 2014/68/EU

and 2014/29/EU (PED/SVPD)

• Personal Protective Equipment – Directive

89/686/EEC (PPE)

• Pyrotechnics – Directive 2013/29/EU (PYROTEC)

• Radio Equipment – Directive 2014/53/EU (RED)

• Recreational Craft and Personal Watercraft –

Directive 2013/53/EU (RCD)

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ADCO List • Restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances –

Directive 2011/65/EU (ROHS)

• Safety of Toys – Directive 2009/48/EC (TOYS)

• Transportable Pressure Equipment – Directive

2010/35/EU (TPED)

• Labelling of Tyres – Regulation (EC) No

1222/2009 (TYRES)

• Measuring Instruments – Directive 2014/32/EU & Non-

automatic Weighing Instruments – Directive

2014/31/EU (WELMEC WG5)

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ADCO Portal

• DG Growth

• http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-

market/goods/building-blocks/market-

surveillance/organisation/administrative-

cooperation-groups/index_en.htm

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Prosafe

• PROSAFE (Product Safety Forum of Europe)

is a non-profit professional organisation

for market surveillance authorities and officers

from throughout the EEA. Its primary objective

is to improve the safety of users of products

and services in Europe.

• Joint Market Surveillance Actions coordinated

by PROSAFE are primarily funded by the

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Prosafe Objectives

• Ensure an effective level of formal networking

with various international bodies as well as other

organisations within and outside Europe.

• Continue to provide a practical forum for

exchanging information through various means,

including PROSAFE meetings, discussions and

networking between all respective members

whilst employing a maximum of discretion

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Prosafe Objectives Cont.

• Strive to act as an initial platform for certain

European projects, building up the necessary

initial infrastructure and informal feedback on

certain issues that require a focus approach.

• Take steps to establish a system of voluntary

mutual peer review of its members with the

goal of achieving a higher level of product

safety within the EEA.

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Prosafe Joint Actions

• Toys

• Childcare articles

• Power Tools

• Electrical Products

• Lighters

• Fireworks

• Smoke Detector

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Prosafe Horizontal Joint Actions

• Best practices

• E-Learning

• Risk Assessment

• Rapid Alert Forum

• Home Authority Principle

• Continuous Improvement in Market

Surveillance

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Rapex

• The Rapid Alert System for non-food dangerous

products facilitates the rapid exchange of information

between national authorities of 31 countries and the

European Commission on dangerous products found

on the market.

• The Commission publishes a weekly overview of the

alerts on products reported by the national authorities.

They include information on the dangerous products

found, the risks identified and the measures taken in the

notifying country in order to prevent or restrict their

marketing or use.

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Rapex Contact Point

• Market Surveillance Directorate is the Maltese

Rapex contact Point.

• In charge of notifying dangerous products and

chase after other member states’ product

notifications.

• Communication on a European scale.

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ICSMS

• The Information and Communication System

on Market Surveillance (ICSMS) is an IT

platform to facilitate communication between

market surveillance bodies in the EU and in

EEA countries. It quickly and efficiently shares

information on non-compliant products, avoids

the duplication of work, and speeds up the

removal of unsafe products from the market.

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ICSMS Objectives

ICSMS helps market surveillance authorities to:

• exchange information on market surveillance measures

quickly and efficiently;

• coordinate activities and inspections more effectively;

• share resources and to test products which have yet to

be tested;

• carry out wide-scale market interventions on dubious

products. These interventions use the latest information

to avoid duplicate inspections;

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ICSMS Objectives Cont.

• ensure that market surveillance is efficient and

uniform across all EU countries to prevent the

distortion of competition;

• establish an encyclopaedia of EU market surveillance

intelligence.

• http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-

market/goods/building-

blocks/icsms/index_en.htm

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CPSC

• Consumer product safety commission. USA

equivalent of product safety market surveillance.

• CPSC is charged with protecting the public from

unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with

the use of the thousands of types of consumer

products under the agency's jurisdiction. CPSC is

committed to protecting consumers and families from

products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or

mechanical hazard.

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ICPSC

• International Consumer Product Safety Caucus

Australia: Australian Competition and Consumer

Commission (ACCC)

Brazil: Inmetro Public portal

Canada: Health Canada

China: AQSIQ

European Union: European Commission DG-

SANCO

Japan: NITE

Korea: KATS

United States of America: CPSC

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Thank You

For further information contact

James Spiteri

Email:- james.spiteri@mccaa.org.mt

Telephone:- 00356 23952314