Measuring Enforcement. Indicators at EU level

(ENFIND)

Forum 22 – AP 17

Helsinki, 5 November 2015

Miquel A. Aguado-Monsonet

REACH Unit within DG GROW

European Commission

Overview of the presentation

1. Introduction

2. How to measure enforcement?

3. Enforcement Indicators (ENFIND) at 3 levels

4. Some preliminary results

5. Conclusions

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Introduction • REACH review: 'The

Commission will develop enforcement indicators in collaboration with the Forum'

• The Forum actively collaborated in the development of the indicators

• One-year long study and the final ENFIND report has been publicly available since May 2015

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Can we represent enforcement like this?

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Overall EU enforcement indicator

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20

40

60

80

100

120

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

How to measure enforcement?

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Report result: 'One set for each actor'

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Architecture of the ENFINDs Foru

m

EU

ECHA Other Sources

MS1

MS2

MS3

MS4

MS5

MS6

MS7

MS8

MS9

etc.

F1

F2

F3

F4

F5

F6

F7

etc. Mem

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tes

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First experience with EU ENFIND (1)

• EU ENFIND work. We are able to calculate (estimate) all EU indicators

• Raw data still under analysis

• Few EU indicators are being modified

• Some calculations require more rigorous work

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CLP

DSD

First experience with EU ENFIND (2)

Average degree of compliance reported

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%

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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Imports CLP

REACH

EU ENFIND

MS enforcement decisions non-overturned

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Notes: • Only MSs that reported appeals • 2010 – 2014 REACH • 2011 – 2014 CLP

REACH CLP Total Appeals non-overturned 149 5 154 # Appeals 152 9 161

Non-compliant 26 398 23 240 49 638 # Controls 346 554 339 301 685 855

0.4 %

EU ENFIND

Penalties vs. compliance cost

Penalty * Compliance cost Ratio (%)

Registration 29 000 46 000 63 Authorisation 36 000 150 000 24

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Notes: * Average penalty in EU+ Period: 2008 – 2015 Data in EUR

Still a lot of work to do! (calculation and interpretation!!)

EU ENFIND

Training

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Notes: * Period 2010 - 2014

Average number of inspectors trained on REACH and CLP per

year in the EU

2087

EU ENFIND

EU complaints (REACH + CLP)

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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

EU ENFIND

Overall EU ENFIND

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REA

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CLP

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100

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140

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

EU ENFIND

Conclusions (1)

• By measuring enforcement, ENFINDs will help:

– to have better knowledge of REACH and CLP enforcement

– to achieve a more harmonised and systematic approach concerning collection of information at EU and national level

– to use similar data to evaluate enforcement

– to create intelligence that might be used in decision making processes

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Conclusions (2)

• Preliminary results shown Work still needed to properly calculate robust results

• Interpretation of the results requires discussions with Forum, MSCA and within the COM

• Final results to be used in the next REACH review (2017)

• ENFIND approach for REACH/CLP may also prove relevant for other policy areas

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