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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY AT THE OECD Ewelina Marek, Consumer Policy Analyst UNECE meeting, 9 November 2012, Geneva

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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

globalrecalls.oecd.org

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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

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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]