On 13 February 2013 the European Commission adopted a comprehensive package on Product Safety and Market Surveillance in order to improve safety of consumer products, in particular by strengthening product identification and traceability, and to simplify and improve the framework of market surveillance of products, particularly by eliminating currently existing overlaps and inconsistencies. The package, which is a key action of the Single Market Act II, consists of two legislative initiatives: a proposal for a new Regulation on Consumer Product Safety and a proposal for a single Regulation on Market Surveillance of Products, as well as complimentary non-legislative measures, in particular multi-annual plan for market surveillance setting out 20 actions to be implemented until 2015 to make progress in market surveillance.
Two legislative proposals and the accompanying impact assessment have been presented in IMCO Committee on 7 May 2013 and Members held a first exchange of view at the same day. The Committee is organizing a hearing on the subject entitled "Safe Products and a Fair Market: Challenges and Opportunities" on the 29 May 2013.
Rapporteur for the Regulation on Consumer Product Safety: Christel Schaldemose (S&D)
Shadow Rapporteurs: Raffaele Baldassarre (EPP), Jürgen Creutzmann (ALDE), Heide Rühle (Greens/EFA), Ashley Fox (ECR).
Rapporteur for the Regulation on Market Surveillance of Products: Sirpa Pietikäinen (EPP)
Shadow Rapporteurs: Christel Schaldemose (S&D), Cristian Silviu Buşoi (ALDE), Heide Rühle (Greens/EFA), Ashley Fox (ECR).
Source : © European Union, 2013 - EP