Omnia – Amsterdam Publisher is a non-profit publisher in the field of philosophy, religion and literature. Omnia – Amsterdam Publisher has as objective: “To deepen and widen our perspective on life through publications on the interfaces between literature, philosophy and religion. Through our books we strive to make the world a better place and contribute to peace and happiness for everyone”.Specialties: Philosophy, Religion, Literature, E-books, Books

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority is an independent agency in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and a delivery agency for the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. It monitors food and consumer products to safeguard public health and animal health and welfare. The Authority controls the whole production chain, from raw materials and processing aids to end products and consumption. The three main tasks of the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority are: supervision, risk assessment and risk communication. Other important activities are incident and crisis management and policy advice for the Minister of Economic Affairs.Currently my areas of interest are: - strategy,- policy,- machinery (for consumers)- Artificial Intelligence- (multi) annual planning,- instrument development for market surveillance.Website: www.nvwa.nl

EMARS I is the first major EU-funded project that PROSAFE has undertaken. It is a three year project which started approximately at the beginning of 2006. EMARS I aimed to achieve a basic level of expertise and practical experience throughout most of the market surveillance organisations within Member States of the EEA (European Economic Area).The overall objective of the EMARS II project is to further enhance the market surveillance of non-food consumer products in Europe. This is to be achieved through the practical application and further fine-tuning of the best practice developed, originally, by the EMARS I project. The project also sought to further capitalise on the improved climate for collaboration amongst national market surveillance authorities, built up by EMARS I project. EMARS II has provided a framework for closer collaboration, within which future Joint Actions and coordinated activities on specific products and other market surveillance related issues were identified. The main objectives of EMARS II Task D were the revision of the current Corrective Action Guide and the PROSAFE activities in the framework of ICPSC, ICPHSO and the OECD working party on market surveillance.

The Joint Market Surveillance Action on Toys had aimed to ensure that toys - placed on the European Market for children under 3 years old - are safe with respect to two investigated aspects: small parts in toys (module I) and migration of heavy metals in toys (module II). In order to achieve a higher level of conformity / safety of these toys and in order to mutually learn from best practice experience in this area, representatives from 15 market surveillance authorities of 13 European countries had regularly meetings and taking action under the co-ordination of PROSAFE.The market surveillance activities related to this joint action were performed during 2009. Over 14,000 toys had been screened and investigated by inspectors from the participating organisations. The data and information extracted from these surveillance exercises had been compiled and analysed. More information can be found by looking at the Press Release on the website of the European Commission issued on the 15th April 2010.

PROSAFE (Product Safety) is a non-profit professional organisation for market surveillance authorities and officers from throughout the EEA. Its primary objective is to improve the safety of users of products and services in Europe. PROSAFE General Assembly meetings are held twice every year in one of the EEA countries. Furthermore, a Secretariat has been established in 2006, which, thanks to the generosity of the EFTA Secretariat, is located at the EFTA Building in Brussels.

ICPSC - International Consumer Product Safety Caucus - is open to consumer product safety regulators and market surveillance authorities anywhere in the world. It exists to facilitate the exchange of information on consumer product safety issues in the area of governmental policy, legislation and market surveillance with a view to strengthening the collaboration and cooperation among consumer product safety regulatory and market surveillance agencies around the world. There is no fee or obligating document. ICPSC members come from jurisdictions in Asia, Australasia, North and South America and Europe. Further information is available on its website: www.icpsc.org

PROSAFE (Product Safety) is a non-profit professional organisation for market surveillance authorities and officers from throughout the EEA. Its primary objective is to improve the safety of users of products and services in Europe. PROSAFE has a legal body - located in the Netherlands - for Joint Market Surveillance Actions coordinated by PROSAFE and primarily funded by the European Commission and EFTA.

The Joint Medical Service was a national body for amongst others advice and realisation of adaptations for handicapped persons. My area of compentence were:Adaptations of cars for handicapped personsWheelchairs Tricycles