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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY AT THE OECD
Ewelina Marek, Consumer Policy Analyst UNECE meeting, 9 November 2012, Geneva
• OECD = 34 member countries
– Europe: 21 EU members, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey
– Americas: Canada, Chile, Mexico, US
– Asia/Pacific: Australia, Israel, Japan, Korea, New Zealand
• Accession country: Russia
• Enhanced engagement countries
– Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Africa
• Scope of OECD work
– 200 bodies, covering a broad range of economic and social issues
• Working Party on Consumer Product Safety
– OECD Members, observers (Colombia, Brazil, Egypt and India), consumer
organisations, business
– links with APEC, ASEAN, GS1, ISO, OAS, UNECE, ICPSC, ICPHSO
What is OECD?
• Created in 2010; www.oecd.org/sti/consumer-policy/productsafety
• Mandate
– Promote the exchange of information on product safety within and between economies;
– Support research on product safety issues;
– Promote the development of systematic methods for monitoring and assessing developments in consumer product safety, including developments in policy and enforcement;
– Promote co-operation between Members and non-members on product safety issues of mutual interest;
– Promote harmonisation of product safety requirements and information collection.
• Main objective: Enhancing information-sharing on product safety issues
– Co-operation with non-Member economies is crucial
• Web platforms
– Global portal on product recalls
– Inventory of national and international developments
• Next meeting
– 28 February-1 March, in Washington DC (back-to-back to the ICPHS O meeting)
About the Working Party on Consumer
Product Safety
• Short-term actions
– Pool information on recalls and emergency alerts on a single web site. [portal launched on 19 October; further work underway]
– Develop mechanisms to co-ordinate international product safety initiatives more effectively. [In place]
– Support other regional and global fora: will help to i) increase understanding of domestic differences, ii) promote harmonisation of standards, iii) flag emerging issues. [Work underway and on track]
• Medium-term actions
– Provide web access to studies of hazards. [In place]
– Provide web access to updates on regulatory activities. [In place]
– Establish restricted web directory of safety experts. [Currently available on the web in a PDF format]
• Longer-term actions
– Reach agreement on format for injury data collection. [Work launched in 2012]
– Pool information on product hazards on a web-based platform (for regulators only). [Work underway in connection with item 4]
– Develop confidentiality protocol for sharing research information.
– Enhance international co-operation on traceability. [Action taken]
10-point action plan to strengthen information
sharing on product safety
Draft Roadmap - Phase I
Testing
Documentation
• User -acceptance testing
• User Guide documentation
• Train users if needed
Nov 2011 – Jun 2012
Development
• User interface/ fill-in form
• Application for automatic pool of recalls
• Application for searching the database
• Go Live with two languages
Jun 2012 – Sep 2012
Implementation
• Official launch
• Press conference
• Beginning of phase II
Oct 2012
– Held on 19 October 2012
– Part of the International Product Safety Week (15-
19 October 2012 , in Brussels, Belgium)
– Webcast available in English, French and Spanish
at: http://scic.ec.europa.eu/streaming/index.php?es=2&sessionno=e2065cb
56f5533494522c46a72f1dfb0#
Official launch
– Portal refinement
– Addition of further languages, countries and
stakeholders
– Mobile application
– Economic/Regional Look and Feel
• Non-member economies are invited to join the initiative
Next steps
– Created in 2011; currently about 200 documents
available and about 200 registered users
– Password-protected
• Please contact [email protected] for further
details
– Frequency of use (1 March - 31 August 2012):
Inventory of national and international
initiatives
https://community.oecd.org/community/prodsafinitiatives
– Workshop on product risk assessment
• Held on 23 April 2012, in Tel-Aviv, Israel
• Follow-up work is planned
– Injury data portal
• Work Initiated in 2012; development of a business plan
underway
• Longer-term project: develop a common taxonomy and a
reporting standard; need for capacity building
• Co-operation with other bodies is envisaged
– OECD’s horizontal project on regulatory co-
operation mechanisms
• The working party provides a case study
Other activities
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Ewelina Marek, Consumer Policy Analyst [email protected]