Activity Details
Products Safety and Market Surveillance: Legal Frame Work and Tools
Introduction
This training course aims at presenting the European Legal Framework for safety monitoring of products and Market Surveillance and its procedures, through the presentation of the New and Global Approach, the New Legal Framework, the New Package of measures to improve consumer product safety and to strengthen market surveillance of products in the EU adopted by the European Commission on 13 February 2013, the General Product Safety Directive and some examples of sectorial harmonized Directives, in addition to the presentation of the Gulf Legal Framework for product safety and its most important procedures and technical regulations.
Course Objectives
- Presentation of the European Legal Framework for safety monitoring of products and Market Surveillance;
- Presentation of the practical procedures applied in order to ensure the safety of products within the European single market;
- Presentation of the Gulf Legal Framework for product safety and its most important procedures and technical regulations.
Who Should Attend
- Specialists in National Standardization Organizations;
- Specialists in governmental agencies (Regulators and Market surveillance authorities);
- Specialists in Conformity Assessment Bodies (Laboratories & other inspection and certification bodies);
- Specialists in private sector responsible for products compliance.
Course Outlines
- The European Legal Framework for safety monitoring of products and Market Surveillance (New and Global Approach);
- The New Legal Framework for safety monitoring of products and Market Surveillance (Decision 768/2008, Regulation 765/2008 and Regulation 764/2008);
- The New Package of measures to improve consumer product safety and to strengthen market surveillance of products in the EU adopted by the European Commission on 13 February 2013;
- The General Product Safety Directive;
- Examples of the sectorial harmonized Directives;
- The GCC Legal Framework for product safety and its most important procedures and technical regulations.
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Some key issues to be addressed include
CE marking
RAPEX and ICSMS
Risk Management
Border controls
National Market Surveillance Plans
Proposed future legislation
<p class="CVNormal"><strong>Robert Murphy</strong></p> <p>Senior Officer</p> <p>European Free Trade Association</p> <p>Brussels (Belgium)</p> <p>Monitoring and development of EU trade policy and standardisation policy, trade policy and international trade developments.</p> <p>Expert in EU legislation on product safety and market surveillance. Specialist in role and responsibility of customs in coordination and control of unsafe products.</p> <p>He represented EFTA at several EU committees relating to consumer product safety - (European Commission at DG ENTR, DG SANCO, DG TAXUD and the European Parliament Internal Market Committee IMCO). I also represented EFTA at OECD and UNECE meetings as well as participating in global fora in the EU and beyond.</p> <p>Trade policy development, consumer product safety and standardisation, customs policy. Financial management activities, policy development</p>