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Making Europe's consumers safer
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EU’s Rapid Alert System (RAPEX) instrumental in ensuring increasing number of unsafe products are removed from the market Within an increasingly consumer-driven society, where the single market allows free movement of goods, RAPEX helps to stop dangerous products, from reaching the buying public in 30 European countries. Through the system, national authorities notify the Commission of products which present a serious risk, such as electric shocks, choking and burns, to consumers. RAPEX immediately launches a process to inform and warn authorities in other countries where the product is sold so that they can take immediate appropriate action. Shots in Hungary of laboratory for testing dangerous products Shots of assorted products on shelves in shops Shots of goods arriving into European ports Interview with Stefano Soro, Head of RAPEX team, European Commission Interview with Meglena Kuneva, Commissioner for Consumer Affairs Interview with Hungarian product tester Shots of RAPEX website and packshots of RAPEX report
Here, they torture toys, inspect irons, analyze coffee makers and put drills through their
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paces.
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This is the mechanical and electrical test laboratory at the General Inspectorate for
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Consumer Protection in Budapest.
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In this laboratory, we test small domestic appliances, as well as toys and other things
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for children.
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We check their mechanical and physical performance.
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Although in Europe, producers and importers must ensure that the products they sell conform
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to safety standards, national authorities make regular checks.
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These checks are carried out following market inspections or consumer complaints.
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When the product investigated does not conform to legislation, and really does present a
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serious danger, it is immediately taken off the market.
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Other product withdrawals or recalls can also come from manufacturers and importers,
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who after the product is put on the market, realize that it represents a previously unnoticed
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safety risk.
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These checks and decisions are carried out on a national scale.
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But the European market is open with no internal borders.
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Goods and merchandise circulate freely in the countries of the European Union and the
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EEA, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
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And 90% of goods imported into the EU are channeled through seaports.
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To protect every European consumer, all the control organizations in the 30 countries
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in this economic zone must exchange information and cooperate with each other.
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And that is why the European Commission has established a Rapid Alert System, or RAPEX.
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The system constantly receives information on dangerous products from the 30 countries
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via their national authorities.
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Processed and translated into five languages, the Commission redistributes the information
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very rapidly to the other 29 countries.
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RAPEX's objective is to prevent products which present a serious risk to the health
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and safety of consumers from finding their way onto shop shelves, or, if they're already
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on the shelves, that they're withdrawn as soon as possible.
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When I say consumer products, I mean all products which are available to consumers, with the
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exception of food products, pharmaceutical goods and medical devices for which specific
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alert systems exist.
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Most of these notifications are available week after week on the RAPEX website.
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In 2006, RAPEX received 924 notifications of products presented.
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- The European Union
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- Fecha:
- 9 de agosto de 2007 - 10:15
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Enlace Relacionado:
- European Commission
- Duración:
- 02′ 37″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
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