2. The PED in the UK, including Market Surveillance
TAIEX: Riga, November

3. Mike Dodds Team Leader, Pressure Directives
Standards & Technical Regulations Directorate
Department of Trade and Industry
151 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 9SS
Tel:
Fax:

4. The background to Pressure Equipment regulation in the UK
Health and Safety Executive (HSE):
responsible for national regulations pre-PED
Department of Trade & Industry (DTI):
responsible for ‘New Approach’ policy and manufacturing industry
Views of industry channelled through professional institutions and trade associations

5. Focus on DTI role DTI negotiates the directives
DTI implements through secondary legislation
Pressure Equipment Regulations (SI 1999/No. 2001) (PER)
DTI sets up the compliance ‘machinery’
DTI leads the compliance effort through:
Publicity material
Arranging ‘PED events’
leading for the UK in pan-European analysis of PED
DTI web-site (

6. Focus on HSE role Replaces old national regulations with new ones:
Pressure Systems and Transportable Gas Container Regulations 1989 (PSTGCR) revoked
Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 1999 (PSSR)
Enforces PER through its network of field operations
Accounts for activity to DTI through a ‘Service Level Agreement’

7. The UK scene – some figures
Source of figures – Regulatory Impact Assessment (1996)
2000 manufacturers
boilers and vessels, compressed air equipment, fire fighting, valves, air conditioning equipment
£3.5 bn turnover (€5.1 bn approx.)
60,000 employees
This is just the immediate impact!

8. The UK scene – some of the ‘Big Issues’
Assemblies
Small manufacturers
Materials
Offshore

9. Assemblies Minor or major modification – do we have a new assembly ???
Blue Guide, Guideline 1/3
Extent of an assembly
Recital 5, Guideline 3/9
Conformity assessment at two levels

10. Market surveillance in the UK - Theory
Subsidiarity
Art. 249 of EU Treaty
Flexibility & co-operation
“prevention is better than cure”
Sanctions
proportionate, dissuasive, effective (SI 2002/No. 1267)
Evaluation
UK’s consistently low accident rate, e.g. just under half EU average in 1998 (source Eurostat)

11. Market surveillance in the UK – Practice
HSE has national responsibility for all industrial sectors
Field operations is regionally based but co-ordinated through SAPID database
Several industry specific teams (e.g. agriculture and wood, polymers and fibres, engineering, offshore)
Specialist technical advice – pressure systems expertise based in Liverpool
Potential for outsourcing where appropriate
External stimuli

12. To sum up ………
Administration of PED in UK is a partnership on several levels
PED is a highly complex directive and enforcement strategy must reflect this
UK: large member state with relatively high ‘exposure’ to PED
Market surveillance strategy tailored accordingly