Pressure equipment

Key points:

While welcoming the Commission's work, the EESC:

• again reiterates the importance of ensuring that products lawfully marketed in one Member State can be marketed without hindrance throughout the EU;
• considers that the new PED must be applied, while respecting the principle of proportionality, especially for smaller companies and for non-standard or limited-series products;
• considers it important to have more efficient and universal market surveillance and greater equivalence between the levels of competence of notified bodies;
• calls for implementation of the new PED to be monitored;
• considers that more weight should be attached to the indicators collected by RAPEX, in order to monitor the reduction in the number of non-compliant products on the market and improvements in the quality of conformity assessment services.

Relevant EESC opinion:

• Transportable pressure equipment (OJ C 347, 17.02.2010, p. 68, INT/508)