Proceedings of the Workshop on "The Product Safety and Market Surveillance Package"
The Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection requested the organisation of a workshop on the Product Safety and Market Surveillance package with the aim to acquire independent technical expertise on selected aspects of the two legislative proposals currently discussed in Parliament. In addition to an overview of the US practices and regulations on market surveillance and product safety, the speakers presented best practices on how to maximise market surveillance with limited budget and the problems market surveillance authorities still face in practice. Experts also presented their views on the product safety proposal for regulation, from a legal and technical point of view.
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Richard W. O'Brien (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - CPSC, USA) , Axel Thonier (Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes - DGCCRF, France) , Loïc Buffard (Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes - DGCCRF, France) , Borut Matkovic (Thermo Energetic Inspector/Independent Consultant in the area of Product Safety and Market Surveillance, Slovenia) , Françoise Maniet (University of Québec in Montréal - UQAM, Canada) and Torben Rahbek (Independent Product Safety Consultant, Denmark)
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- civil law
- consumption
- cooperation policy
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- health
- health control
- health risk
- international cooperation
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international standard
- LAW
- market approval
- marketing
- producer's liability
- product safety
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- research and intellectual property
- single market
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- technology and technical regulations
- traceability
- TRADE