Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 1 March 2005

I Information and

C Communication

S System for

M Market

S Surveillance

I C S M S

byLudwig Finkeldei

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 2 March 2005

CURRENT LACKS OF MARKET SURVEILLANCE

• Local market inspection bodies are lacking the means to interact and exchange important information quickly and in-time

• Current market inspection practices work merely on a REGIONAL level - while, in fact, markets work and companies operate INTERNATIONALLY and even GLOBALLY:

Market surveillance needs TEAMWORK !

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 3 March 2005

EFFECTIVE MARKET SURVEILLANCE NEEDS ...

quick and in-time INFORMATION and COMMUNICCATION on market inspection and surveillance measures conducted by other market inspection bodies

a DATA BASE covering all and any products distributed throughout Europe including up-to-date information on product TESTING (positive and negative)

EVALUATION TOOLS to compare existing testing methods and to ensure a uniform level of quality

efficient co-operation with CUSTOMS authorities

an attractive means to inform the PUBLIC about unsafe products (see also: requirements of Art. 16, revised General Product Safety Directive)

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 4 March 2005

European Market and ICSMS

ICSMS: initiated by the EU, Belgium, Sweden and Germany.

Austria and Luxemburg joined the system during the development phase.

Estonia started with the system in September 2003

Slovenia and the Netherlands started the trial in 2003.

United Kingdom started the trial in June 2004.

Switzerland started with the system in September 2004.

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 5 March 2005

Information and Communication System

Market Surveillance Authorities

EU Commission

Customs Distributor

Customers

ARCHITECTURE

Confidential Section

• Product Information

• Test results

• Measures taken• .......

Public Section

• Faulty products

• Voluntary recalls

• .......

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 6 March 2005

Which DIRECTIVES will be covered today ?

98/37/EC – Machinery Directive 

73/23/EEC – Low Voltage Directive

88/378/EEC – Toy Safety Directive

97/23/EC – Pressure Equipment Directive

89/686/EEC – Personal Protective Equipment Directive

95/16/EC – Lift Directive

87/404/EEC – Simple Pressure Vessels Directive 94/25/EC – Recreational Craft Directive

2001/95/EC – General Product Safety Directive

89/336/EEC – Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) 1999/5/EC R&TTE – Radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment

90/396/EEC – Appliances Burning Gaseous Fuels

94/9/EC – Potentially explosive atmospheres

2001/14/EC – Noise Emission

... to be continued

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 7 March 2005

A PRODUCT INFORMATION DATA SET will include data on:

• General information about the notifying authority

• Product identification criteria

• Distributor

• Relevant Provisions and Standards

• Conformity

• Depth and scope of testing

• Test results and a classification of defects

• Accidents occurred

• Measures taken by surveillance authority

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 8 March 2005

A PRODUCT INFORMATION DATA SET

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 9 March 2005

A PRODUCT INFORMATION DATA SET cont‘ed

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 10 March 2005

A PRODUCT INFORMATION DATA SET cont‘ed

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 11 March 2005

Fast exchange of information: information on unsafe products will be announced immediately

Immediate measures may be taken

Deterrence: „black sheep“ among manufacturers will be detected earlier and punished more effectively

Avoiding redundant work: Test results by one surveillance authority will be immediately made available to all other Member States

Strengthening co-operation with Customs authorities: The TARIC system is implemented within ICSMS

ADVANTAGES of ICSMS

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 12 March 2005

ADVANTAGES OF ICSMS, cont‘ed

Appropriate platform for complaints: in accordance with the newly revised General Product Safety Directive, ICSMS will create an attractive platform for citizens to address complaints

Templates of forms will be electronically accessible and may be filled in and submitted on-line

Uniform operating language, adequate translation options will be provided

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 13 March 2005

Service and availability

Training courses for users have been provided in the past and will be provided in the future on request.

Hotline (e-mail) and phone during the normal office hours (8 am to 5 pm).

Support in other cases within 1 working day

System availability 24 h/day with >99 % within the normal office hours.

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 14 March 2005

Development of costs

Annual cost for system providing will be splitted according to the “Key of Nice” (number of seats in the European Parliament).

Increasing number of participating Member States is directly correlated to decreasing operation costs for all of them.

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 15 March 2005

Further improvements of ICSMS

The objective of the project is to optimise ICSMS to make market surveillance in Europe more effective, efficient and transparent by:

• Further optimisation of the existing information system by connecting ICSMS to the RAPEX system.

• Improving the evaluation possibilities of ICSMS by integrating an evaluation module.

• Integration of all Member States languages into ICSMS in order to facilitate its use for all member states.

ICSMS 2

Ministry of Environment and Transport Baden-Württemberg 16 March 2005

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