4th CEN-CENELEC Annual Meeting

24 - 26 June 2008, Bucharest, Romania

48th CENELEC General Assembly   34th CEN General Assembly

Open Meeting:

European Standards in support of market surveillance

The application of European Standards is a concrete way for manufacturers to demonstrate compliance of products with the essential requirements of those European Directives incorporating the principle of presumption of conformity. The New Package on Internal Market for Goods, adopted by the European Parliament last February, emphasizes conformity assessment and market surveillance.

Adequate market surveillance is necessary to support the principles embodied in the New Approach directives. Therefore the European Standards Organizations should use their strengths in the area of European Standards to assist in the development of efficient European infrastructures to coordinate market surveillance policy and processes.

Programme

Welcome
Mr Juan Carlos López Agüí, CEN President

Speech

Opening speech
President of Romania, Mr Traian Bãsescu

Speech

Market Surveillance in Romania and Malta

Romania: Mrs Catalina Groza, Director Internal Market Department, Ministry of Economy and Finance of Romania

Presentation
Slides

Malta: Mr Francis E. Farrugia, Chairman of the Malta Standards Authority

Presentation
Slides

Sector cases - Market Surveillance and the European Standardization System
Enhancing Market Surveillance through best practices

Child resistance in lighters: Mr Torben Rahbek, Project co-ordinator for the European joint action on lighters

Presentation
Slides

Standards in support of market surveillance for vulnerable people and for tanning devices:
Mr Fabio Gargantini, Chairman CENELEC/TC 61 – Safety of household and similar electrical appliances

Presentation
Slides

- Mr Fabio Gargantini -


Panel discussion

Moderator: Peter Woodward

Biography

Introduction: Statement by the panellists 

Panellists:

- Mr Ivar Jachwitz, European Standardization System External Relation Committee

  Presentation


- Mrs Gabriela Cretu, Romanian Member of the European Parliament - Committee on Internal Market and
  Consumer Protection (IMCO)

  Presentation

- Mr Adrian Ciocanea, State Secretary of the Romanian Government, Department for European Affairs

- Mr Philippe Portalier, Senior Adviser of ORGALIME - The European Engineering Industries Association

  Presentation

- Mr Stephen Russell, Secretary General of ANEC - The European consumer voice in standardization

  Presentation

- Mr Jacques McMillan, Head of Unit 'Regulatory Approach for the free movement of goods' - European Commission
  Directorate General Enterprise and Industry

  Presentation


- Mrs Lorenza Jachia, Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies

  Presentation

- Mr Gunnar Wold, Project Leader EMARS (Enhancing Market Surveillance through Best Practice) - PROSAFE (Product Safety Enforcement Forum of Europe), Authorities Directorate of Civil Protection and Emergency Planning (DSB, Norway)

  Presentation


Closing remarks – The way forward
Mr Dietmar Harting, CENELEC President