CIMS Review in The Netherlands Feb. 2017
The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, NVWA, has hosted the second CIMS Review of JA2015, coordinated by PROSAFE. The meeting took place on 14-15-16 February 2017, at the NVWA Offices, in Utrecht and Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands. The host welcomed the participating authorities from Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, France, Latvia, Malta and Slovakia.
The meeting gave the participants the opportunity to share information, best practices and review the NVWA market surveillance system and procedures. The review team will prepare a report to highlight the findings of the CIMS three-days-meeting, which will be published on the members' only section of the website.
Within this Joint Action, which started in April 2016 and will end in March 2018, the household electrical appliances are defined as: TOASTERS (plastic and metal-body types), HAND-HELD MIXERS and BLENDERS (freestanding only and not part of a food processor).