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Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6)

 

Market Surveillance (MARS) Group - Meeting
10-13 October 2007, Bratislava, Slovakia

 

  • Introduction
  • Documents
  • Presentations
  • List of Participants
  • Report

The meeting was organized in four sessions devoted to following issues:

  • General market surveillance developments on a regional level in Europe

  • Experiences of the EU member states

  • Experiences of other countries in UNECE and other regions

  • Work done in “facilitators groups” established under the “MARS” Group.
  • Draft Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products

  • Draft Report on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on a common framework for the marketing of products

  • Working Document on the prpopsal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on a common framework for the marketing of products

11 October 2007 - Thursday
08:00 Breakfast in the hotel
09:00 Opening of the MARS-meeting

Welcome addresses:
Mr. Peter Lukác, President of SOSMT
Mr. Christer Arvius, Chairman of WP.6 [ppt]
Mrs. Kvetoslava Steinlová, Coordinator of WP.6
Roll-call
09:30 Ms. Rita l'Abbate: Information about the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council setting out the requirement for accreditation and market surveillance  [ppt]

Discussion
11:30  Presentation of database of ICSMS   English [ppt]   Russian [ppt]
14:00 Round-Table of Facilitators - follow up from last session
Presentations and discussion

   Belarus [ppt]
   Brazil [doc]  [ppt]
   Bulgaria [ppt]
   Moldova [ppt]
   Romania [ppt] [ppt] [ppt]
   Turkey [ppt]

Suggestions of participants
17:30 New challenges for Market Surveillance (MS)
Follow up from the International Forum on MS in Geneva [ppt] [pdf]
12 October 2007 - Friday
09:00 Mrs. Jana Kovacicová: REACH - New requirements for introduction of chemicals on EU market [ppt]
10:00 State of preparation of Member States (Slovak Example) [ppt]
11:00 Discussion
13 October 2007 - Saturday
09:00 Preparation of conclusions, identification of common problems for future work
12:00 Closure of the MARS meeting

Download the report of the meeting