JAHARP18 Final Press Release

The JAHARP18 Joint Action publishes its Final Press Release showcasing the project’s outputs and results.

The JAHARP18 Joint Action was a 34-month EU co-funded project that started in November 2019 and was completed in August 2022. Eleven Market Surveillance Authorities (MSAs) from 9 EU Member States cooperated to assess the safety of 30 recreational craft and 60 portable room heaters against the requirements of the applicable standards and Union regulations. The results from inspections, which included checks on technical documentation and product testing, were discussed with the relevant stakeholders in two separate closing events held at the end of August 2022. PROSAFE – The Product Safety Forum of Europe was the project coordinator.

Caution!
The results are based on samples of products collected from the markets in the participating countries. As in most market surveillance activities, the results represent the targeted efforts that authorities undertake to identify non-compliant products. Because of that, the results of this joint action do not present a statistically valid picture of the situation of the entire market.

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JAHARP18 Second Newsletter

Three months before the end of JAHARP18 and two years and a half after the start of this Joint Market Surveillance Action on Harmonised Products, it is time for an update on the preliminary findings.

In total, 11 Market Surveillance Authorities sampled and tested 30 models of recreational craft and 60 models of portable room heaters for product safety. The Second Newsletter is presenting the JAHARP18 overall inspection and testing results with follow-up actions with Economic Operators still ongoing. The final results of this Joint Action will be published in the final Press Release at the end of the project together with the Layman version of the final report.

The second Newsletter is published in: 

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Caution: The results of JAHARP18 are based on samples of products from the markets in the participating countries. As in most market surveillance activities, the results represent the targeted efforts that authorities undertake to identify unsafe and non-compliant products. They do not present a statistically valid picture of the situation of the whole market. Tests were undertaken at accredited laboratories and focused on those safety and compliance requirements that have the largest impact on public interest.

PROSAFE is organising its next General Assembly in May 2022 and is looking for new members!

Navigating the new landscape for market surveillance shaped by the emerging new realities for the European economies and societies is the clear challenge ahead of us.

It is now the time for a restart. To power-up the biggest market surveillance grid in place, to overhaul existing challenges and respond to these new realities arm-in-arm by generating greater efficiencies, there is a need to fast-track knowledge fusion across the harmonised sectors and scale up innovation in market surveillance.

In Memoriam of Fabio Gargantini

One of our most devoted and outstanding collaborators has sadly passed away.

He has been with PROSAFE since the early days in the first EMARS (Enhancing Market Surveillance) project, more than 15 years ago now. Since then, Fabio helped improve the market surveillance in Europe for a large array of product sectors and legislative acts, enhancing the safety of non-food products by contributing to standards build-up or update.