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  • Inside PROSAFE
    • Our Mission
    • Our Board
    • Meet The Team
    • General Assembly
    • Contact us
    • Vacancies
  • Projects
    • Current Actions
      • HARP2022
      • HARP2021 Omnibus
      • EEPLIANT4
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      • HARP2020 Triplet
      • HARP2018
      • Energy Efficiency Products
      • Professional Products
      • Consumer Products
      • EEPLIANT3
    • Research Studies & Contracts
      • PROPLIANT-MTool
      • AdCo Tech Secretariat
      • ENERTP2020
  • Products
    • Automotive
    • Child Care Articles
    • Clothing
    • Consumer Electronics
    • Cooking Appliances
    • Cooling and Freezing
    • Cosmetics
    • Heaters
    • Home Improvement
    • Home Laundy Appliances
    • Leisure Activities
    • Lighting
    • Machinery
    • Other GPSD Products
    • Personal Care Appliances
    • Personal Protective Equipment
    • Pyrotechnics
    • Recreational craft
    • Toys
    • TPED
  • News
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    • Webinars
    • CIMS
    • Home Authority Principle
    • Electrical Appliances Safety
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    • Emerging issues and challenges
    • Joint activities with customs
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Who we are

As a long standing partner coordinating market surveillance activities, undertaking value research and building capacity, PROSAFE helps accelerate the transformation of market surveillance preparing it for the future.    "You are what you do, not what you say you will do." Carl Gustav Jung

Our Latest Thinking and Initiatives

We foster an atmosfere of cooperation and respect to the national market surveillance priorities and demands. This transpires in all the projects and research activities that we build together with the govermental authorities across Europe. Read more about our latest results and plans. 

Joint Actions Reports

Our in-depth knowledge and extensive expertise in product safety and compliance is substantiated within the Market Surveillance Joint Actions. The core of the results are presented in factual and evidence-based reports all available to the public. Discover the activities performed by Market Surveillance Authorities inspecting the product compliance and enforcing the results of testing and documental inspections in multiple areas.

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Discover a flexible workspace to build and develop your business. Organise your conventions, workshops, seminars, team meetings, conferences in a professional and modern work environment in the centre of Brussels.

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MARTIN BURBY

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Technical Facilitator

Running Projects: Management of the Administrative and Technical Secretariat of the "Coordination groups for Administrative Cooperation on Market Surveillance”.

 

Martin Burby has achieved great expertise in designing, testing, and certifying a range of domestic, commercial, and industrial products. His 15-year long experience stems from his research at the University of Salford and his work as an independent consultant for his own company – Inveniam Solutions Ltd.
Some of his fields of expertise are oil, solid fuel, and gas appliances and heat-pumps under ISO/IEC 17025, as well as product certification under ISO/IEC 17065.
Mr Burby has also been coordinating activities covering the Gas Appliance Regulation (EU) 2016/426 and the Boiler Efficiency Directive (Directive 92/42/EEC).
Martin Burby holds a Bachelor’s in Aeronautical Engineering, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Science, an Engineering Doctorate, and a Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education and Practice.

 

 

ANTE FUZUL

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Technical Facilitator/Senior Market Surveillance Expert

Running Projects: Management of the Administrative and Technical Secretariat of the "Coordination groups for Administrative Cooperation on Market Surveillance”.

 

Ante Fuzul is textile mechanical engineer with extensive experience in product safety and market surveillance since 2001. His main fields as a market surveillance inspector are personal protective equipment, gas appliances, and energy labelling and eco-design. 
 
Mr Fuzul had a crucial role as the Croatian representative of the Administration Coordination groups for Personal Protective Equipment (2015-2021) and for Gas Appliances (2018-2021).
 
His years of experience in the field include: 
 
• Personal protective equipment under the Regulation on Personal protective equipment (EU 2016/425)
• Gas appliances under the regulation of gas appliances (EU 2016/426)
• More than 7 years of project facilitation experience with projects coordinated by PROSAFE

 

 

TRYGGVI AXELSSON

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Technical Facilitator

Running Projects: Management of the Administrative and Technical Secretariat of the "Coordination groups for Administrative Cooperation on Market Surveillance”

 

Tryggvi Axelsson has been the Director of Consumer Agency in Iceland – under the Ministry of Business and Innovation for over 15 years. His professional experience included the strategic planning of market surveillance activities for various product-specific areas such as helmets, lighters, playgrounds, toys, personal protective equipment, and childcare articles. He had important roles of representation of Iceland at the EU Committees on product safety and internal market (DG JUST and DG GROW) as well as in the Administration Coordination for Toys and Pyrotechnics (TOYS AdCo and PYROTEC AdCo).

Tryggvi Axelsson has extensive experience working as head of department for the Icelandic Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Business and Innovation. Also, he worked as the Director of the National Office of Weights, Measures from 2003 to 2005.

Mr Axelsson holds a Master Degree of Law and a Master Degree of Business Administration (MBA).

 

 

TORBEN RAHBEK

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Technical Facilitator/Senior Market Surveillance Expert

Running Projects: PROPLIANT MTool, JAHARP2021 Omnibus, EEPLIANT3, JAHARP2020-1, JAHARP2020-3 and JAHARP2018.

 

Torben Rahbek is an independent product safety consultant and has been working as such since 2006 providing advice to businesses and governments on product safety and market surveillance. Torben Rahbek has been working for PROSAFE since the beginning of the first EMARS project in 2006. He has supported the Joint Actions with risk assessment of consumer products, compilation and application of best practices, market surveillance on cigarette lighters and study of the scope for cooperation with the Chinese export control authorities.
In JA2016, Torben Rahbek has acted as one of the two Project Coordinators for the entire Joint Action and Work Package Coordinator for the Risk Assessment Work Package.
Before becoming consultant, Torben Rahbek was head of the market surveillance department in the Danish Safety Technology Authority and the Danish Electricity Council for 7 years. This included the overall responsibility for the enforcement of the General Product Safety Directive, the Low Voltage Directive, the toys safety directive, the Gas Appliances Directive and the regulation for fireworks.
Torben Rahbek holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration.

 

 

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Joint Market Surveillance Actions on HARmonised Products 2022

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Joint Market Surveillance Actions on HARmonised Products 2021

Joint Market Surveillance Actions on HARmonised Products 2021

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    There are no open call for tenders at the moment.

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    EEPLIANT3 Final Conference

    During two half days, on 06 (closed meeting) and 07 (open event) March 2024, the project participants, stakeholders, and the European Commission will convene in Brussels to discuss the conclusions and findings from the inspection and testing activities, as well as takeaways and suggestions for improvement.

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  • JAHARP2022 Press Releases

    JAHARP2022 Press Releases

    The JAHARP2022 Action published its Second Press Release following the successful completion of the kick-off meetings. Click on Read More to read it.

    The First Press Release is also available at this link.

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    Vacancies

    Project Financial Officer - OPEN until 15 May 2025

    Policy and Project Officer - OPEN until 30 July 2024

  

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Disclaimer: All the projects coordinated by PROSAFE are funded or co-funded by the European Union in the framework of various programmes. The content of this web page represents the views of the author only and it is his sole responsibility. It cannot be considered to reflect the views of the European Commission or any other body of the European Union. The European Commission does not accept any responsibility for the use that may be made of the information it contains.

  

     Co Funded by the EU logo ok EU logo

Disclaimer: All the projects coordinated by PROSAFE are funded or co-funded by the European Union in the framework of various programmes. The content of this web page represents the views of the author only and it is his sole responsibility. It cannot be considered to reflect the views of the European Commission or any other body of the European Union. The European Commission does not accept any responsibility for the use that may be made of the information it contains.

 

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