ICSMS

I Information and
C Communication
S System for
M Market
S Surveillance

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 PROBLEMS OF MARKET SURVEILLANCE

• Local market inspection bodies are lacking the means to interact

and exchange important information quickly and in-time

• Current market surveillance works

REGIONALLY - while markets are
organised INTERNATIONALLY and
companies operate GLOBALLY

Market surveillance needs CO-OPERATION !

• Current Notification procedures (RAPEX, Safeguard Clause) are

not always efficient enough to fulfil all the needs of market
inspection bodies in practice

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 EFFECTIVE MARKET SURVEILLANCE NEEDS ...

 quick and in-time INFORMATION on market inspection and

surveillance measures conducted by other market inspection
bodies

 a DATA BASE covering all non-conforming products in

circulation in Europe including up-to-date information on
products being TESTED

 efficient co-operation with CUSTOMS authorities

 an effective means to inform the PUBLIC about unsafe

products (requirement of Art. 16, revised General Product
Safety Directive)

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 European Market and ICSMS

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 European Market and ICSMS

ICSMS: initiated by the EU, Belgium,

Sweden and Germany in 2000.
Austria and Luxemburg since 2001.
Estonia uses ICSMS since 09/2003.
UK uses ICSMS since 06/2004.
Switzerland joined ICSMS in 09/2004.
Slovenia, The Netherlands and Malta
use ICSMS since 2006.
Cyprus uses ICSMS since 2007.
Lithuania started a trial in 10/2007.
Greece started a trial in 03/2009.

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 Throughout Europe

ICSMS

EXCHANGE OF
PRODUCT
INFORMATION
IMMEDIATE
CONTACT

QUICK REACTION

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 SYSTEM

CENTRAL Data Storage

Independent Data INPUT by ANY

INTERNET
market surveillance authority
Access requirements:
• Personal Computer
• Internet access
• Browser Mozilla Firefox or MS Explorer 5.0
• Windows 95

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 ARCHITECTURE

Information and Communication System

Confidential Section Public Section

• Product Information • Faulty products
• Test results • Voluntary recalls
• Measures taken • .......
• .......

Market Surveillance Customs Distributor

Authorities

EU Customers
Commission
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 CONFIDENTIALITY

CONFIDENTIAL PRODUCT
INFORMATION

Market CUSTOMS INDUSTRY ?

Surveillance

ICSMS.ORG

PUBLIC PRODUCT
PUBLIC
INFORMATION

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 Which DIRECTIVES are covered today ?
98/37/EC – Machinery Directive  2001/95/EC – General Product Safety
2006/95/EC – Low Voltage
Directive
88/378/EEC – Toy Safety Directive
97/23/EC – Pressure Equipment
Directive
89/686/EEC – Personal Protective
Equipment Directive
95/16/EC – Lift Directive
87/404/EEC – Simple Pressure
Vessels Directive
 
94/25/EC – Recreational Craft
Directive
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Directive
89/336/EEC – Electromagnetic
compatibility (EMC)
 
1999/5/EC R&TTE – Radio
equipment and telecommunications
terminal equipment
90/396/EEC – Appliances Burning
Gaseous Fuels
94/9/EC – Potentially explosive
atmospheres (ATEX)
2001/14/EC – Noise Emission
(Outdoor Directive)
89/106/EEC – Construction products
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 Which DIRECTIVES / REGULATIONS are covered today ?

75/324/EEC – Aerosol dispensers

98/8/EC – Biocide products

67/548/EEC – Dangerous substances

76/769/EEC – Restrictions on the marketing

1999/45/EC – Dangerous preparations

91/414/EEC – Plant protection products

2000/9/EC – Cableway Directive

2006/121/EC – REACH

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 DIRECTIVES not included yet

93/15/EEC – Civil Explosives

90/384/EEC – Non-automatic weighing instruments

92/42/EEC – New hot boilers

2004/22/EC – Measuring instruments (MID)

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 A PRODUCT INFORMATION DATA SET includes data on:

• General information about the notifying authority

• Product identification criteria
• Distributor
• Relevant Directives and Standards
• Conformity
• Depth and scope of testing
• Test results and a classification of shortcomings
• Accidents having occurred
• Measures taken by surveillance authority

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 A PRODUCT INFORMATION DATA SET

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 A PRODUCT INFORMATION DATA SET cont‘ed

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 A PRODUCT INFORMATION DATA SET cont‘ed

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 ADVANTAGES of ICSMS

 Fast exchange of information: information on unsafe

products will be announced immediately
 Immediate measures are possible
 Deterrence: „black sheep“ among manufacturers will be
detected earlier and punished more effectively
 Avoiding redundant work: Test results by one surveillance
authority will be immediately made available to all other
Member States
 Strengthening co-operation with Customs authorities:
The TARIC system is implemented within ICSMS

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 ADVANTAGES of ICSMS

 Evaluation tools allow users to fine-tune procedures and to

prioritize projects (surveillance campaign)
 Appropriate platform for complaints: in accordance with the
newly revised General Product Safety Directive, ICSMS will
create an attractive platform for citizens to address
complaints
 RAPEX and safeguard clause notifications can be
generated automatically
 Uniform operating language, adequate translation options
are provided

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 SERVICE AND AVAILABILITY

 Training courses for users on request.

 Hotline (e-mail) and phone during normal office
hours (8 am to 5 pm).
 Support in other cases within 1 work day
 System availability
 24 h/day
 >99 % within normal office hours.

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 KEYFIGURES 12/2008

 Number of authorities: > 400

 Number of user accounts: > 1.750

 Present number of PIs: > 24.000

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 KEYFIGURES 2002 - 2008

Number of product information (PI)

6000

5000

4000

3000

2000

1000

0
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

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 YOUR ACCESS to the SYSTEM

www.icsms.org
Email support: support@icsms.org

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 ICSMS

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 DISCUSSION

Thank you for your attention

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