Joint Action on Lighters
Joint meeting, customs and market
surveillance
Meeting in Brussels, 18 September
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Joint action on lighters - introduction
• Joint market surveillance action with 13 Member States (AT,
BG, DK, EE, GR, LV, MT, NL, NO, PL, SE, SI and SK)
• Project manager Gunnar Wold, DSB, Norway
• Coordinator Torben Rahbek, consultant for PROSAFE
Primary purpose, only safe lighters on the EU market:
• non-compliant lighters found on the market;
• non-compliant lighters imported to Europe;
• non-compliant lighters produced in Europe;
• shops marketing novelty lighters.
Ambition: < 2 % for each indicator
September 2007 – December 2009
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Joint action on lighters - objectives
Gather experience with:
• execution of a market surveillance action
with a large number of participants
• guidance by common (ambitious)
objectives;
• promotion of a harmonised approach to
market surveillance and enforcement;
• coordinated tests and cross-border
utilisation of test results
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Results
Number of containers and consignments checked by customs
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
- Q3, 2007
Q4, 2007
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Q1, 2008
Q2, 2008
Results
Number of market surveillance inspections
400
350
300
250
Importers
200
Wholesalers
Retailers
150
100
50
0
- Q3, 2007
Q4, 2007
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Q1, 2008
Q2, 2008
Results
Number of checked lighter models
Semi-luxury/luxury
lighters (315)
Novelty lighters (191)
Utility lighters (17)
Inexpensive cigarette
lighters (1.006)
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Results
Non-conformities
EN ISO 9994
56%
Conforming
lighters
76%
Lighters
w ith non-conformities
24%
Other
(e.g. novelty)
14%
Non-CR
5%
Not specified
26%
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Results – it’s working !
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Laboratory testing
• Report – only first round of tests
• Now – four rounds of testing
• 33 models
• Only results from the first 26 lighters
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Results
• Non-compliant lighters
on market (< 2 %)
• Non-compliant
imported lighters
• Non-compliant
European lighters
• Shops marketing
novelty lighters
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• 374/1.529 = 24 % of
the sampled lighters
• Not possible to
distinguish
• Not possible to
distinguish
• BG-figures: 0,022 %
of the market
The dashboard
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Records of contributions
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Records of contributions
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Item 11 – inventories
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Item 11 – inventories
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Item 11 – inventories
(grey zones)
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Item 11 – inventories
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Item 11 – inventories
non-novelty
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Item 12c – torch lights or novelty
lighters ?
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