Paulo Coscarelli Deputy Director of Quality National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro ICPHSO’s 2011 International Symposium Toward Global Best Practices in Product Safety and Consumer Protection Brazil’s Product and Consumer Safety Trends and Issues Seoul, November, 2011

Brazil Area: km2 Population: th largest economy Takes part of BRICs Takes part of the United Nations Security Council The brazilian consumer can buy more: increased 19% in the last 8 years Our national industry is growing: 10,1% The consumption is growing: 4% just in the first quarter of The imported products is responsible for 64% of this growing Competitiveness Global Products Consumer Safety

Who We Are National Metrology Institute Enquiry Point of WTO’s Technical Barriers to Trade National Accreditation Body Regulator on Legal Metrology Regulator on Consumer Product Safety and Unfair Competition (in areas that are not regulated by any other regulators) Coordinator of the Conformity Assessment Schemes implemented under the Brazilian Conformity Assessment System Coordinator of the market surveillance activities at the marketplace New law published in August – Gives us more power

Product Safety – Pre and Post Market Ex-Ante: Regulation; Conformity Assessment Schemes (certification); Product Registration; Authorization to imported products Ex Post: Inspection at the marketplace; Educational campaigns; Ongoing Assessment of Product Conformance by Inmetro; Ongoing Assessment of Product Conformance by External Agents; International recalls and notifications surveillance

Inmetro conformity mark: more than 200 thousand types of products Number of CAS

Inmetro’s Conformity Identification Mark On labels, packages or products

Number of Inspections More than 300 local inspectors

However... most of the brazilian regulators aren’t allowed to enter into the ports and airports to inspect – Inmetro is one of them; no injuries data base; difficulties to get the support from the hospitals to collect data; the consumers in general don’t know that an injury caused by a consumer product must be reported to the authorities because they still believe, in most of the cases, that this type of injury is their fault; recall culture “under construction”; the price continues to be the main characteristic used by the consumer to make the decision to buy a product

But we are working hard on...

Building a Consumer Report Data Base

Updated in August, 2011

Link from the web pages of the state market surveillance and consumer protection authorities to the Inmetro’s form Local consumer education campaigns More Reliable Data Base

Building a Network with Our National Counterparts Health Authority Consumer Protection Authority Traffic Safety Authority Consumer Product Safety Authority Others must join us...

Building a Network with Other Jurisdictions

Building a Network through the International Forums Working Party on Consumer Product Safety Tracking and Traceability Pilot Project Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies International Product Safety Week Seminar and Annual Meetings PC 240 and PC 243

Building a Network through the Americas A work that begun in 2009 Gathers authorities: health, consumer protection, product safety, metrology The official launch was in november, 2010 Advisory Technical Group 2 seminars: Lima and Bogota 1 post-graduate course on Market Surveillance Rapid Alert Interamerican System: harmonization of definitions

Trends and Issues Increasing the requests for more regulation; To change how to regulate; To update the national legislation; Authorization to enter in ports, airports and borders; Implementation of a statistically reliabe consumer report data base and an Injury Surveillance System based on the data collected from the hospitals; Enhancing the partnership with other jurisdictions (MoU and communication channel) and the participation in the forums; Enhancing the articulation with other regulators at national and state level

OBRIGADO!!! THANKS!!! KAMSA KAMNIDA!!! One Global Marketplace, One Global Product, A Harmonized Consumer Protection: A Global Effort