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Key actions for creating the enabling conditions: Ensuring fair competition and compliance in a well-functioning internal market?

EU market surveillance legislation provides rules to ensure that national competent authorities can enforce EU legislation for products placed on the EU market irrespective of their origin. The challenges of the global market and increasingly complex supply chains, as well as the increase in products sold online within the EU, call for stronger enforcement measures, to ensure consumers’ safety and a well-functioning internal market. 

To this end, it is necessary to enable structured coordination and cooperation between national enforcement authorities and to streamline market surveillance practices. The newly created EU Product Compliance Network will coordinate and support cross-border market surveillance practices in the EU in priority areas to be proposed by the competent authorities and ensure cross-sectoral coordination between different Administrative Cooperation Groups (AdCos), such as the AdCo on Chemicals and Textile Labelling. The Commission will provide support through joint initiatives and projects to step up  collaborations between all relevant actors, notably  customs and market surveillance authorities, industry and testing laboratories in the textiles ecosystem, with capacity building under the Single Market Programme, ensuring the use of digital tools for market surveillance and setting uniform conditions and frequency of checks for certain products. 

To fight IP infringements, the Commission will create by 2023 an EU Toolbox against counterfeiting, setting out principles for joint action, cooperation and information sharing among right-holders, intermediaries, both online and offline, and law enforcement authorities, such as customs, police and market surveillance authorities.


Source: European Comission
 

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