Work Package 4 - Establishment of centres of excellence for product testing
Work Package Leader: Fundación para el Fomento de la Innovación Industrial (FFII-LCOE), Spain
Work Package Coordinator: PROSAFE
Scope
Access to good test facilities can be very difficult for most Market Surveillance Authorities (MSAs). Some are developing their own in-house testing facilities whilst others continue to seek affordable commercial expert test laboratories. This Work Package explores the possibilities for establishing ‘centres of excellence’ for market surveillance, particularly by MSAs themselves, to support testing and strengthening coordination between the relevant authorities.
Objective
To identify ways for improving Market Surveillance Authorities access to independent and skilled test facilities, and to provide a directory of where these already exist in the EU.
Work Plan
- Setting the focus of the action;
- Establishing what test facilities already exist amongst MSAs in the EEA for energy related testing and, on a lesser, scale what example equivalents exist in other EU policy domains;
- Establishing the motivation behind establishing the existing facilities;
- Future scoping existing MSA - operated test facilities;
- Produce map of existing and planned test facilities operated by MSAs or equivalent authorities;
- Establishing what commercial test facilities exist for Energy Labelling and or Eco-design testing in the EEA and policy recommendations for setting up a network of centres of excellence.
Participants
6 Market Surveillance Authorities and 4 other organisations from the following 9 countries: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.