Briefing - Strengthening the market surveillance of products - 27-03-2018

Briefing - Strengthening the market surveillance of products - 27-03-2018 27-03-2018 12:00 AM CEST This note seeks to provide an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's impact assessment (IA) accompanying its proposal for the above regulation, adopted on 19 December 2017 and referred to Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. The ultimate goal of this proposal is that citizens get safer goods, produced by businesses that compete fairly and that are supervised by administrations that cooperate with each other. The legislation under review covers the majority of industrial products bought by EU citizens, such as toys, cosmetics and machinery. These products include goods produced in the EU and imported goods and should be manufactured according to common rules, also known as harmonised legislation. This body of law is large: the proposal amends six regulations and 16 directives. Moreover, the proposal is related to two legislative procedures for which Parliament has been awaiting the Council's first reading position since 2014: on the market surveillance of products and on consumer product safety. The IA spans over 1 000 pages. Therefore, this initial appraisal focuses on 80 pages of core text and refers to the Annexes where appropriate. Source : © European Union, 2018 - EP QUESTIONS? STAY CONNECTED  Contact Us |   This email was sent on behalf of the European Parliament · Bât. Altiero Spinelli · 60 rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60 · B-1047 - Bruxelles/Brussels  · Belgium · Phone: +32(0)2 28 42111