On 4/4/2023, there was the short implementing decision (EU) 2023/733, which is in line with the Market Surveillance Regulation (EU) 2019/1020. This is intended to strengthen market surveillance, especially of radio equipment and toys in the EU.
In the Market Surveillance Regulation, the Commission granted itself the right to initiate its own market surveillance mandates. Until then, market surveillance was the exclusive preserve of the member states.
In this implementing decision, the EU Commission has designated a laboratory for toys (in France) and a laboratory for radio equipment (in Lithuania). These laboratories are called Union testing facilities (see link to the decision below for details).
These laboratories can also be commissioned by national market surveillance authorities. It will be interesting to see which orders the EU Commission will place there.
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