Ensuring fairness for manufacturers and protecting consumers: Reinforcing the EU’s market surveillance system

A smart and effective system of market surveillance is essential for ensuring that only compliant products are made available on the EU market. Market surveillance thus has an important role to play in ensuring fair competition for European businesses, notably regarding imported products, as well as the protection of European consumers.  In recent years, the EU has made some, yet – overall – insufficient progress towards achieving these objectives. Still, today, Europe’s market surveillance system is not working as it should.

This paper outlines Orgalim’s proposals on how to strengthen the EU’s market surveillance system, taking into account recent developments such as the European Commission’s report on the implementation of Article 4 of the Market Surveillance Regulation and its communication on “The Single Market: our European home market in an uncertain world – A Strategy for making the Single Market simple, seamless and strong”.

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