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Raising Standards for Consumers
THE IMPORTANCE OF DATA IN PROTECTING THE SAFETY OF CONSUMERS
Mike Hayes
(ANEC volunteer representative)
Tania Vandenberghe
(ANEC Senior Programme Manager)
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Raising Standards for Consumers
About ANEC
• ANEC is the European consumer voice in standardisation
(www.anec.eu)
• ANEC represents the European consumer interest in the
creation of technical standards, especially those
developed to support the implementation of European
laws and public policies
• Supported financially by the European Union & EFTA
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Raising Standards for Consumers
About ANEC
• ANEC participates principally through its voluntary
experts in the standards development work of the three
European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs):
– CEN
– CENELEC
– ETSI
• Also participates in ISO, IEC and UNECE committees
• ANEC participates in more than 155 technical bodies of
the European and international standards organisations
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Raising Standards for Consumers
About ANEC
• Under the Standardisation Regulation, ANEC has a right
to be consulted and to participate at various stages in
the standards development processes
• ANEC is represented on the European Commission’s
committee that oversees the General Product Safety
Directive, the directive that controls a wide range of
consumer products, and its Consumer Safety Network
• ANEC also has an interest in the application of
standards, including market surveillance and
enforcement, accreditation and conformity assessment
schemes
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Raising Standards for Consumers
ANEC technical priorities
- Child Safety
- Design for All
- Domestic Appliances
- Sustainability
- Information Society
- Services
- Traffic
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Raising Standards for Consumers
Long-standing interest in data collection and use
• Joint call for a Pan-European
Accident and Injury Data
system
• Joint initiative from 8 EU
stakeholders (ANEC,
EuroSafe, etc) with support of
24 other EU stakeholders
(including EUPHA) launched
in March 2013
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Raising Standards for Consumers
The lack of detailed, representative accident data is a problem
“There is no need to
change the standard because there are no
accidents, everything is fine!”
“Can you show us accident data?”
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Raising Standards for Consumers
Data sources used in standards development
• RAPEX and product recalls – no injury information
• Consumer complaints - completeness and availability?
• Media reports – not representative
• Comparative testing – no injury information
• Extrapolation of relevant data about hazardous
characteristics from other similar types of products
• Information on problems and actions in other
jurisdictions – might not be identical products
• European Injury Database (IDB) – limits to
representatives
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Raising Standards for Consumers
Injury data needed for …
• Problem definition – is there a problem or not?
• Prioritising what products and services needs to be
addressed
• Development of safety requirements that form part of
standardisation requests – European Commission
mechanism for instructing ESOs to develop standards
• Development of detailed requirements and test methods
in standards – need to reflect the real world as far as
possible
• Assessment of the effectiveness of standards
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Raising Standards for Consumers
Ideal injury data requirements for standards development - 1
• Broad epidemiological data
• Detailed – circumstances of the events, nature and
severity of injuries, ages of injured people, etc
• Representative – pan-European
• Information on fatalities
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Ideal injury data requirements for standards development - 2
• Up-to-date and responsive to new products entering the
market
• Trend information
• Data needs to be available to all members of standards
committees, especially free text descriptions of events
• Data needs to be easily and quickly accessible
• While anonymity needs to be maintained, age data in
single years needs to be available
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Raising Standards for Consumers
Other data and information requirements
• Denominator data
• Cost-effectiveness information – injuries, prevention,
the development of standards and testing cost money
• Child behaviour – young children’s behaviour and
capabilities change rapidly
• Children’s anthropometry
• How adults use products – are they aware of warnings,
do they obey instructions, do they understand symbols,
etc?
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Raising Standards for Consumers
An uphill battle
60,000+ experts from business
75 experts in CEN committees on behalf of consumers
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Raising Standards for Consumers
Thank you
Mike Hayes ([email protected])
Tania Vandenberghe ([email protected])
ANEC is supported financially by the European Union & EFTA