Market surveillance
Market surveillance ensures that non-food products on the EU market do not endanger consumers and workers. The national market surveillance authorities can withdraw, recall and the apply sanctions to stop the circulation of non-compliant products and/or bring them into compliance.
National market surveillance programme 2020
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey
National market surveillance programme 2021
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Spain (Marine Equipment), Sweden, Turkey
Legislation:
REGULATION (EU) 2019/1020 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 20 June 2019 on market surveillance and compliance of products and amending Directive 2004/42/EC and Regulations (EC) No 765/2008 and (EU) No 305/2011
Documents on market surveillance activities:
- Good Practice in Market Surveillance Activities related to Non-Food Consumer Products sold Online, January 2015
- Cooperation and mutual assistance among Member States about products presenting a risk, February 2016
- Assemblies according to the Pressure Equipment Directive - a consideration provided by the PED-AdCo Group, May 2017
- Good Practice Guide on Market Surveillance Interventions - Machinery, May 2014
- Market Surveillance ADCO Working Group on Model for Market Surveillance Intervention, Market surveillance procedures according to the Pressure Equipment Directive, October 2013