icphso 2010 Annual Meeting and Training Symposium Washington DC 15 th February 2010 Stakeholders response to OECD Draft report on Enhancing Information Sharing on Consumer Product Safety Mark Dewar Simmons & Simmons

Stakeholders response to OECD Draft report on Enhancing Information Sharing on Consumer Product Safety Summary of OECD proposal –Short term: pool info into web based platform –Medium term: carry info re regulatory activities, password website access –Long term: universal approach to collection of data; limits potential for assembly info from multiple jurisdictions

Stakeholders response to OECD Initial industry response Evaluate time and resource allocation Develop programs and systems to facilitate info sharing Use of regional conferences? Assurances that info will be vetted ‘and purged of false accusations, misinformation’ Perceived vs actual hazards 3 hatted response: commercial and legal issues

Stakeholders response to OECD Commercial –Intellectual property: lot of work to create database interfaces –Who will own them? –Finance: will each block fund? Web portal,est database; datatype format –Access procedures Legal –Web portal system Web portal; or 1 database –Crime prevention: assess risks of intervention –Encryption and security Develop different levels of access?

Stakeholders response to OECD Commercial –Third party operators –If create a database: who will own it –Changes to data protection legislation –Who will have access –Success depends on each contributor’s content up to date –Common format –Commercial sensitivity/suppress commercially sensitive info –Harmonisation of procedures and standards? Whose? Legal –Ownership of data Who will own IP in the data & database Value in ownership and data mining rights eg to detect buying trends –EU database directive needs to be overcome to allow movement of data between respective international database jurisdictions –solutions: Collective development Logically held centrally by one party licensed to other parties Anonymise data