16 Amendments of Christel SCHALDEMOSE related to 2010/2085(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas it is essential to ensure that all products placed on the EU market are safe so as to guarantee high level of consumer protection for among others consumers,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the General Product Safety Directive 2001/95/EC (hereinafter - GPSD) which establishes at Community level general safety requirements for consumer products has to be reviewed and brought into conformity with NLF through integration, in particular the Regulation on market surveillance,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Proposes to the Commission to establish a common European framework for market surveillance concerning all products on the internal market or entering the EU market;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on Member States to designate adequate financial and human resources to market surveillance activities; calls on the Commission to put pressure on, assist and encourage the Member States to increase the resources for market surveillance; and to allocate resources in the Commission as well to coordinate the marked surveillance activities between member states; emphasizes that failing market surveillance systems undermine the citizen's trust in the internal market;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasizes the necessity to share best practices among the Member States; calls for joint cooperation, pooling the know- how and sharing the best practices among market surveillance authorities; suggests that Pro safe could be the network to be given this task; reminds of the importance of cooperation between customs and market surveillance authorities at the external borders to carry out appropriate checks of products entering the Community;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Commission to establish a public Consumer Product safety Information Database, including a platform for complaints which will raise awareness of dangerous products across the borders in the internal market; calls for the establishment of a accident statistical system wherefrom mandatory annual reports will be published,; believes this database could be the injury database under development; believes the database needs a legal base and it shall be a database which is mandatory for member states to report to; coordinated and funded by the European Commission, where Member States shall report products that have caused accidents within their territory;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Supports the review of the GPSD and calls for an alignment of the definitions of the GPSD with the Regulation on Market Surveillance in regards to definitions and in regards to the obligations for economic operators as defined in the decision 768/2008;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Insists that a common definition of ‘market surveillance approach on “child-appealing product’s” should be included in the current revision of the GPSD and in sector specific legislation on harmonised products; welcomes the work of an ad-hoc working groupPROSAFE on the “Joint Action on cChild aAppealing appliances; CallDesigns” for electrical products; Calls the Commission to pursue this work and broaden the scope to cover also non- electrical products; asks for more transparency throughout that process and wishes to be more informed on the progress achieved so far;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that products posing serious risk must be permanently withdrawn or recalled from the market as quickly as possible and traceability through out the supply chain must be ensured which calls for sufficient resources for the marked surveillance authorities;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Insists on effective enforcement of the identification procedures that are already in place; encourages the Commission to make assessments and evaluations on the use of new technologies, e.g. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), technology tags and nano-printed intelligent packaging, however considers that the usage of thosenew technologies should not endanger the privacy, security and safety of the consumer;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on Commission to allow product safety professionals, consumer organisations and national authorities to have access to all relevant information while ensuring the necessary confidentiality;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the new RAPEX guidelines which contribute to the improvement of operation of RAPEX; Invites the Commission to streamline the new risk assessment method with those in place for harmonised consumer products to assist market surveillance authorities in their work;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Is particularly concerned that each year there is an increase of RAPEX notifications relating to products of Chinese origin, which is more than half of the RAPEX notifications, and where it appears that it is not possible to identify the manufactures of those products in 20 per cent of cases; therefore calls on enhanced efforts to be made internationally and welcomes EU-China-US cooperation on product traceability strategies; welcomes any support, training, seminars organised by EU and Chinese authorities to improve product safety; underlines that there is a need for multiannual programmes to face these challenges;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Commission and Member States Authorities to ensure proper training of officers so products presenting a risk can be further detected; urges for better cooperation between customs and market surveillance authorities before products are released on the market which calls for a multiannual programme here as well;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls for standardisation to be limited to providing the technical means through which compliance with a political decision is achieved or evaluated. Political issues which have a direct impact on the protection of welfare of consumers/users should be dealt with at the political level and not delegated to the standardisation bodies;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls for the introduction of a safeguard procedure which would allow Member States to express a formal objection to a standard (such as Article 14 of the Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC)as the one in the decision 768/2008 to be included in all harmonisation legislation. This allows for a formal objection to a standard. The use of a safeguard procedure should be possible even before a standard is cited in the OJEU;