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BackBy introducing a package of measures, the Commission wants to ensure safer products, a step, which would in particular benefit the consumer. The current product safety regulations are fragmented and insufficient. Two new legislative acts and an action plan shall remedy the situation.
Apart from product safety provisions, the Commission also considers that market surveillance is playing an important role. Its aim is to stop, as far as possible, dishonest or criminal traders from selling goods.
In future, manufacturers and importers of products have to indicate the country of origin to make the traceability of goods within the supply chain easier. For example, the indication of origin plays an important role with regard to product recalls in order to enable speedy completion. Apart from that, it is the intention to introduce instruments that are more effective and enable speedier action against dangerous or non-standard products. The already existing market surveillance systems RAPEX (rapid alert system for dangerous products) and ICSMS (Information and Communication System on Market Surveillance) shall be closer linked and ensure positive synergy effects.
The Directives on imitation food and the General Product Safety Directive shall be replaced by a new Regulation on consumer product safety. Apart from that, the plan is to introduce a single legislative act on market surveillance, which includes 20 concrete actions. Currently, market surveillance is still regulated by a number of different legislative texts.
The Commission hopes that the proposals on product safety and market surveillance will come into effect as early as 2015.
In future, manufacturers and importers of products have to indicate the country of origin to make the traceability of goods within the supply chain easier. For example, the indication of origin plays an important role with regard to product recalls in order to enable speedy completion. Apart from that, it is the intention to introduce instruments that are more effective and enable speedier action against dangerous or non-standard products. The already existing market surveillance systems RAPEX (rapid alert system for dangerous products) and ICSMS (Information and Communication System on Market Surveillance) shall be closer linked and ensure positive synergy effects.
The Directives on imitation food and the General Product Safety Directive shall be replaced by a new Regulation on consumer product safety. Apart from that, the plan is to introduce a single legislative act on market surveillance, which includes 20 concrete actions. Currently, market surveillance is still regulated by a number of different legislative texts.
The Commission hopes that the proposals on product safety and market surveillance will come into effect as early as 2015.