Safe Enjoyment of Consumer Benefits

Across the OECD area, one of the primary objectives is to allow citizens to safely enjoy the physical and emotional benefits of both existing and future innovative products and services. When it comes to consumer products, EU citizens currently enjoy a high level of safety, while the existence of an evidence-based regulatory framework creates incentives for innovation.

The primary aim of governments when managing consumer exposures is to ensure that products are safe for their intended use. It is the management of involuntary exposure to potential harms posed by consumer applications of technologies. Consumer safety is the over-riding aim.

 

High quality regulation of consumer safety has a significant degree of predictability, allowing consumers to enjoy benefits, while reducing uncertainty for market participants. A supportive context for innovation, with consequent benefits for consumers, is an ancillary benefit.

 

At EU-level, a final regulatory objective is the good functioning of the Single Market by facilitating the placing on the market of products that meet common standards of safety. This creates additional incentives for investment.

 

This website has been set up to provide insights to those who subscribe to the view that the best way to achieve these dual objectives of safety and enjoyment of products is that the advice given to regulators and policy-makers should be developed via processes and in a context that strive for scientific excellence.

 

The website is developed with pages dedicated to the following sections:

 

• The Complex Regulatory Challenges of Consumer Safety

• The Best Practices Framework in Considering Consumer Exposures and Risks

  • Regulatory principles and philosophy;

  • Institutional architecture;

  • Policies;

  • Principles and guidelines for scientific integrity

• Structural Models for Considering Exposures and Risks

 

For more information, you can contact us at: info@scientificexcellence.eu