New boost for internal market on goods
21st February 20081 Comment
The European Commission welcomes today’s adoption by the European Parliament of a broad package of measures to facilitate the functioning of the internal market for goods, e-Gov monitor reports.
This will make it easier for companies, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises, to sell their products in the EU whilst increasing the protection of consumers. For industrial products existing market surveillance systems will be strengthened and for the first time aligned with import controls.
Accreditation has also been introduced. This is a formal system which may now be used to ensure that conformity assessment bodies (or testing and certification laboratories) provide the high quality services that manufacturers need. The introduction of these measures serves to reinforce the role and credibility of CE marking.
19th March 2008 at 6:25 am
This is for the section on product conformity. ” IPCC to examine imported goods from abroad”. Believe this is for the conformity program to be implemented in Yemen soon. The classification society that had been appointed to handle this “Verification of Conformity ” (VOC) program is Bureau Veritas S.A. They hold monopoly for this contract.
I am interested in discussing with fellow contributors or editors on subjects related to VOC programs implemented widely especially by governments of Middle East (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia etc) of late.
Open to views or queries.
Thanks and Regards
Deborah