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20TH ANEC GA
THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2009
‘STAKEHOLDER
EXPECTATIONS OF ANEC’
by Adrian Harris
Secretary General, Orgalime
Orgalime
35 Member Associations
In 23 European Countries
130 000 Companies,>90% SMEs
€1885 Bn Output 2008
(EU-27 estimates)
LU
11.1 Million Employed
FI
NO
SE
DK
LT
IE
UK
BE
CH
ES
AT
CZ
FR
PT
LV
PL
DE
NL
Most engineering products
covered by New Approach
directives:
SL HR
I
T
BG
– LVD => electrical safety
– EMCD => electromagnetic
– MD => machinery safety
– MID => measuring instr.
– PED => pressure equipmt
– ATEX => safety in
explosive atmospheres
– and some 12 others...
20 % consumer goods
80% professional goods
Orgalime, what we are…
 Orgalime: represents our industry’s interests in
Brussels for more than half a century
 Orgalime not involved in standards setting but in
standardisation policy
 Co-operating partner of Cenelec, just as is
ANEC
 Committed to the New Approach and to turn the
New Legislative Framework (NLF) into a
success => make it work in practice
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Our main goals: competitiveness
and level-playing field
=> make market surveillance work
Is this
against
consumer
interests?
NO!
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Market surveillance must work:
more consistency across the EU
Example of RAPEX (1)
RAPEX 2008
52 weeks:
Variable levels
of RAPEX use
from one
Member State to
the other
Nb of notifications
over 10 months:
DE
IT
Source: DG SANCO RAPEX Report 2009 processed by Orgalime
≥
<
<
<
<
160
160
80
40
20
Market surveillance must work:
more co-ordination across the EU
Example of RAPEX (2)
Notifications of electrical products - trends
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
NB
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
2005
2006
All electrical products (%)
Household appliances
ICT equipment
Others
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Association
2007
Nr of notifications
% of all notifications
%
2008
Lighting equipment
Cables, plugs, sockets
Electrical DYI tools
Source: DG Sanco – Figures processed by Orgalime
What do we expect of ANEC?
 Collaborate pragmatically on issues of common
interest
 As a first step, make the NLF work as it is
designed to do: all products on the EU market
should respect our laws
 Through this, help to rid the market of rogue
traders: bad for consumer safety, bad for the
environment, bad for confidence in products of
lawful manufacturers
And this is what we have started to do…
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22 April 2009
Consumers and Orgalime
industry call for an effective
pan-European market
surveillance system
Why together?
Because...
All consumers expect safe products
All companies expect fair competition
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The European Voice of Consumers in Standardisation
Applicable product legislation is
becoming ever more complex
 For manufacturers to comply with
 For trade to demonstrate compliance
 For authorities to enforce
 For consumers to make an informed choice
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The European Voice of Consumers in Standardisation
NLF is about streamlining laws
applying to the same product
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NLF is also about
market surveillance
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NLF is also about setting
a level playing field
Therefore we called Member States to give market
surveillance more means (funding + staffing)
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Orgalime-ANEC position
on market surveillance
 So we call for immediate measures to
the European Commission to set in
place a common approach to market
surveillance
 For both product and user oriented
legislation
 Politically supported at Commission level
 Well co-ordinated across services
(SANCO, ENTR, TAXUD, etc…
 Supported by harmonised standards for a
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The European Voice of Consumers in Standardisation
A final thought to take-away…
Certification: a panacea?
 Certification industry is as globalised as the
manufacturing industry: e.g. recourse to local
(e.g. Chinese) test houses too...
 Member states (accreditation) have no means to
control quality of such test houses
 Testing and certification is also a business
service
 So to be consistent and effective there is only
one answer: a market surveillance which works
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So Orgalime expects ANEC’s help
to make the law match reality
…as a shared responsibility
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20TH ANEC GENERAL ASSEMBLY
THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2009
‘STAKEHOLDER EXPECTATIONS OF ANEC’
Thank you for your attention!
 Follow-up contact:
 Philippe Portalier
Senior Adviser
+32-2-706 82 43
[email protected]
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