RAPEX definition
Examples of RAPEX in a sentence
When it came to risk assessment, all market surveillance authorities adopted the same methodology as indicated by the RAPEX Guidelines, Commission Decision 2010/15/EU.
For the purpose of this AA: Data fields mean the fields in RAPEX or RADAR respectively and on which both Participants intend to exchange information, provided that this information is available.
RAPEX notifications were also made and processed in accordance with the measures.
In addition to these programs, MSAs also perform reactive market surveillance which starts by an outside source such as complaints from consumers, accidents, reports from the media, notifications under RAPEX etc..
Initiative: : Regular exchange of information between the EU RAPEX alert system and Canada’s RADAR consumer product incident reporting system (CETA Article 21.7(4)-(6)); ad hoc information exchange and cooperation on other aspects of non-food product safety (CETA Article 21.7(3)).
The Commission shall provide and maintain a data interface between the RAPEX system to the system referred to in Article 34 so that the need for double data entry is reliably avoided.
It is important to note that in the case of serious risk, the ms authorities are obliged to inform the European Commission about this risk via the RAPEX system as an Article 12 Notification.
Eventually, all 12 samples constituting the 17% will be published in RAPEX, some of which have in fact already been published.
Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council2 lays down the requirement that consumer products must be safe and that Member States' market surveillance authorities must take action against dangerous products as well as exchange information to that effect through the “Union rapid information exchange system”, RAPEX.
RAPEX alerts: In accordance with the GPSD directive 2001/95/EC dangerous products will or have been notified into the RAPEX system.