Consumer Product Safety@ OECD ICPHSO 13 November 2018 Regulator Panel Yasuko Iwai, Chair Working Party on Consumer Product Safety
Key points 2018 OECD Global awareness campaign on the safety of products sold online IoT, AI, blockchain and product safety Enhancing recall effectiveness globally Automatising of OECD GlobalRecalls portal New OECD Council Recommendation on Consumer Product Safety
2018 OECD Global awareness campaign on the safety of products sold online
enhancing recall effectiveness globally
Recent activities
Outcomes and next steps Research/experiment on consumer behaviour and motivation? Policy guidance on product recalls effectiveness? 2019 Global awareness campaign on recalls?
OECD GLOBALRECALLS PORTAL HTTP://GLOBALRECALLS.OECD.ORG
Source: OECD GlobalRecalls portal (current version)
Objectives Portal launched in 2012 to Identify and address safety issues at an early point Improve awareness of dangerous products globally Brings together information submitted by governments on worldwide mandatory and voluntary product recalls Contains more than 20000 records from Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, Korea, United States, EU RAPEX, and United Arab Emirates
Further improvements (live in January 2019) Direct and automated upload of recall notifications by jurisdictions and other international fora New global product taxonomy to help Search grainly across recalls Discover similarities of recalls across GPC segments Expanded language capabilities
IoT/new technologies project
CCP/WPCPS contributions
Next steps OECD/EC IoT workshop (Nov. 2018) Research and discussion with IoT businesses Coordination with CDEP (AI) and SPDE (privacy/security) Policy conclusions To be reflected in review of legal instruments
Review of six OECD product safety legal instruments
OECD Consumer product safety acquis Instruments Injury Data Collections Systems (C(77)139/FINAL) Consumer Product Safety (C(79)202/FINAL) Product Recalls (C(81)7/FINAL) Risk Management (C(82)122/FINAL) Children’s Safety (C(83)129/FINAL) OECD System for Safety Notifications (C(89)106/FINAL)
New OECD Council Recommendation on Consumer Product Safety Consolidate OECD acquis Update terminology Address new and emerging issues (e.g. online market surveillance, ecommerce, new technologies, OECD GlobalRecalls portal)
Thank you Join the OECD Working Party on Consumer Product Safety! Contact: Brigitte Acoca (Brigitte.acoca@oecd.org)