PROGRAM: Thursday November 17th
6. WEBINAR: Enforcing fire safety requirements in Europe: How to ensure stricter compliance? (10h00-12h00 CET)
The objective of the online event ‘Enforcing fire safety requirements in Europe: How to ensure stricter compliance?’ is to set the basis for a holistic approach to product compliance: a common responsibility to all relevant actors in the fire safety ecosystem.
It aims to bring relevant decision makers from EU Institutions, Member State authorities, Fire Services, and Industry together to identify common actions how to improve fire safety compliance of products.
Product compliance with fire safety requirements has shown some deficiencies across Europe. Occasionally, people do not get ‘what is promised’ and this puts them at risk in the event of a fire. Furthermore, insufficient product compliance enforcement by regulators as well as lack of commitment by economic operators representing the whole fire safety ecosystem has and continues to allow for a widespread dissemination of substandard products in the European market.
Compliance and enforcement are a common responsibility. All relevant stakeholders should contribute and play an active role to ensure that only compliant products are placed on the market for the sake of European citizens’ safety.
Welcome and Opening
Moderator: Mr. Alberto Lampasona, Director Public Affairs, Europacable
Products compliance and fire safety: two sides of same coin
Substandard products putting consumers at risk: Results of a dedicated survey on cables
Enhancing compliance:
- The Notify Bodies perspective
Mrs. Yannick Le Tallec, Certification Director, Efectis
- The National Authorities perspective
Mr. Richard Butler, Senior Professional, National Building Control and Market Surveillance Office of the Republic of Ireland
- The EU Institutions perspective
Ms. Eva, Kukovec, Legal Officer, DG GROW H.1 – Construction, European Commission
- The industry perspective
Mr. Nicola Scirocco, Chair CPR Compliance & Communication WG, Europacable
Conclusions
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7. WEBINAR: Recognizing Fire Safety in Revised EU legislation (14h00-15h30 CET)
Today, significant EU frameworks, such as the General Product Safety Directive, the Construction Products Regulation and the Toys directive, are being revised and strengthened to better protect the EU citizens in an ever-changing and technology-advancing Europe.
Electrical goods & appliances, building & construction materials, and furniture & mattresses in particular pose a fire threat to lives and possessions – approximately 5,000 people lose their life each year as a result of fires in the EU. The revision of these pieces of legislation offer an opportunity to better recognise the importance of Fire safety across Member States – protecting lives and materials. This session will look at what can be done today and what more needs to be considered with respect to achieving a higher, more harmonised, level of Fire Safety in the European Union.
Welcome and Opening
Moderator: Patrick Fox, Head of Public Affairs & Advocacy, BSEF
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Current status of the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) – How construction products can contribute to fire safe buildings in the EU
Case study – The future of ETA route in the revision of the Construction Products Regulation (CPR)
What more can be done? – Better recognition of Fire Safety at EU level and role of flame retardants
Q&A
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