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Croatia. Market surveillance system in the field of technical products

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PHARE 2005 PROJECT FICHE

1. BASIC INFORMATION

1.1 CRIS Number: HR2005/4/1

1.2 Title: Market surveillance system in the field of technical products

1.3 Sector: 33110

1.4 Location: State Inspectorate, Zagreb, Croatia.

1.5 Duration: 24 months

2. OBJECTIVES

2.1 Overall Objective Project Overall Objective as stated in the logframe:

“Contribute to further develop the capacity of the market surveillance system in Croatia regarding its task to guarantee the safety and compliance of technical products (non-food products) in accordance with EU market surveillance good practice.”

2.2 Project purpose Project purpose as stated in the logframe:

Efficient and sustainable capacity of SI – State Inspectorate to carry out market surveillance activities in accordance with EU good practice and in cooperation with other national market surveillance authorities.

2.3 European Partnership. National Programme for Integration of Croatia into the EU - 2005

The “European partnership”1 for the integration of Croatia in European Union establishes as a short-term priority for legislative harmonisation to continue work on the transposition of Old approach and New approach directives.

Other national strategic documents as the “European Union Opinion” “and the “PAAN 2004-2006” 2point out that strong work will be required in the short-term and its further intensification in the mid-term to transpose, adopt and enforce in Croatia the EU Directives.

Specifically, the “National programme for integration of the Republic of Croatia into the EU-2005” 3refers that:

1 COUNCIL DECISION of 13 September 2004 on the principles, priorities and conditions contained in the European Partnership with Croatia (2004/648/EC). 2 Government of the Republic of Croatia. EU Pre-Accession Assistance Needs of the Republic of Croatia for 2004-2006 6 July 2004. 3 National programme for the integration of the Republic of Croatia into the European Union – 2005. Republic of Croatia. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration. Zagreb, March 2005.


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“As part of the process of transposing the New and Old Approach Directives into national legislation, the State Inspector’s Office will soon undertake the task of putting an efficient market surveillance system in accordance with the new technical legislation of the Republic of Croatia.”

To ensure the consistent implementation of these new regulations, the Croatian Authorities are carry out systematic organisational changes, arranging specialised training courses for the existing experts and recruiting new experts specialised in European technical legislation.

The present project will support the State Inspectorate to speed up and improve its contribution for the accomplishment of that priority.

2.4 Contribution to National Development Plan (and/or Structural Funds Development Plan)

"Not applicable"

2.5 Cross Border Impact "Not applicable"

3. DESCRIPTION

3.1 Background and justification The work of market surveillance authorities in the Republic of Croatia is regulated by the Law on the structure and scope of central state administration authorities (Official Gazette 76/99, 96/03,151/03,160/04), and by the Law on State inspectorate (Official Gazette 76/99, 96/03, 151/03, 160/04,174/04, 33/05, 48/05). The main responsibility for the performance of market –related inspection duties is assigned to the inspectors of State Inspectorate.

Also, the State Inspectorate is authorized to perform market surveillance regarding the fulfilment of technical requirements for products and the safety of products placed on the market. State Inspectorate is responsible for surveillance of conformity and safety of products placed on the market in the following sectors: machinery, electrical and electronic equipment, lifts, pressure equipment, mining, construction products, radio and telecommunication terminal equipment, metrology, non-automatic weights, personal protective equipment, consumer products and for general product safety.

However, there are also other market surveillance authorities in fields of technical products like the sanitary inspection within the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and telecommunication inspection within the Ministry of Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development. Under the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction there is the Construction Surveillance Department.

Currently, the relevant authorities in Croatia have been carrying out market surveillance mostly in accordance with existing legislation and particular technical regulations not yet harmonised with relevant EU regulations.


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Furthermore, surveillance in field of technical product still is mainly based on a pre-market control system of in accordance with mandatory certification of products before putting them on the market.

In order to ensure an effective alignment of Croatian institutional infrastructures with those of the European Union, the market surveillance system in the Republic of Croatia shall as well line up with the most updated requirements and systems existing in the European Union Member States.

Up until today, considerable progress has been made regarding the adoption of horizontal legislation and the reform of the institutional structure for standardization, metrology, accreditation and conformity assessment activities. In October 2003, the Croatian Parliament adopted the new horizontal “Law on General Product Safety”, the “Law on Technical Requirements for Products and on Conformity Assessment” (both in Official Gazette 158/03) and the “Law on Standardization” (Official Gazette 163/03). These laws have as well set up the basis for the on-going process of adopting technical regulations and transposing New and Old Approach Directives into Croatian legislation.

At the moment, Croatia does not have sufficiently testing and certification bodies in order to effectively carry out market surveillance activities for all groups of technical products. In most cases the existing testing laboratories and certification bodies are technically insufficient. By the time of entry into the European Union, however, they will have to comply with EU standards. However, developing and maintaining full test bases for all product fields would be expensive and in some cases inefficient for lack of testing demand in Croatia.

There is here a whole strategic issue to be addressed and decided for which this project also foresees adequate technical advice.

The preparation phase of this project during the CARDS 2004 mission from 14 March until 13 June 2005 (as mentioned in 3.4) systematically planned and accomplished the involvement of the main stakeholders with a legitimate interest on this project.

Through written questionnaires, interviews, consultations on drafted documents, meetings and one day workshop, the preparation of this project engaged roughly in all 200 people holding responsible positions in the following organizations and sectors:

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Ministry of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship, Ministry of Health and Social welfare, Ministry of Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, European Delegation in Croatia, personnel of the State Inspectorate, namely the inspectors, all the institutions of the voluntary infrastructures for quality – standardisation, metrology and accreditation, main conformity assessment bodies involved in testing the product types considered by this project, consumer organisations and industrial associations.

Their feedback, consolidated into this project fiche, contributed to clarify institutional gaps (not all of them addresses by this project) as well as to open several project paths and decide project options.


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3.2 Purpose. Results. Activities

3.2.1 Purpose The logframe states the project purpose as the expected scenery of an:

“Efficient and sustainable capacity of SI – State Inspectorate to carry out market surveillance activities in accordance with EU good practice and in cooperation with other national market surveillance authorities.”

This purpose and the path to attain it through the project results deserve some explanation.

In Croatia, the market surveillance activities on non-food products are carried out by a few governmental organisations each one on its own specific field with a few interrelated but not overlapped activities.

The State Inspectorate is the main market surveillance authority, working on a broad range of product and services and it is deservedly considered by the national governmental authorities as an important and effective organisation.

Further of assuring its present status, SI also aims at being a more efficient organisation and to support Croatia endeavours into European integration.

The realisation of this purpose entails the following project features embodied into the results of the present project.

• Result 1: Advanced management tools These tools include the realisation of a management accounting system, the creation of a set of performance indicators (a Balanced Scorecard) and an effective management quality system.

With a management accounting system, SI will be able to calculate the cost and income (if it is the case) for each “SI service module” and then for instance, compare them with the corresponding market value for the products surveyed and with the benefits draw from its actions.

A management accounting system will also provide SI’s top management with the information on direct and indirect costs for carry out its public interest activities and thus allow them to use this knowledge to rationalise its non-productive costs.

With cost accounting SI can contribute more accurately to base impact assessments studies on legislative proposals for new technical regulations.

The balanced scorecard will establish a quantified institutional measuring device to monitor SI’s effectiveness and efficiency along with the rational use of its resources.

The balanced scorecard is a management tool designed to provide a summary but comprehensive set of indicators of organizational performance targets and accomplishments and thus improve at all levels the understanding and communication of organization goals, strategies and outcomes.

Since this transient project has to establish performance indicators (OVI) it will consign to them more meaningful measuring tools in the perspective of their continual, effective and enduring use in a future balanced score card for SI.

A quality management system will let SI to map its processes, establish a comprehensive, consistent and controlled set of written procedures, working methods


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and templates and then to have the all system annually audited by a third independent party.

Note: The present Logframe matrix doesn’t display base-line values for its indicators because its corresponding measurement methods will be implemented only during the project inception period.

Therefore, the present end-of-project target values should be reviewed as soon base-line data will be available, preferably during the project beginning.

• Result 2: Personnel development The project will help to create within SI a "Management unit for personnel development" or briefly a “Training Unit” that will have its own responsibilities, work plan, budget, procedures (including performance evaluation procedures) and data bases.

That Training Unit will devise a tailor-made multi-annual training schedule for each SI employee as well as for SI newcomers and for people from related organisations if ask to.

Then, the Training Unit will consolidate all these individual training pieces into an overall budgeted training schedule aimed at the market surveillance goals and personnel career development aspirations.

Therefore, during the 24 months of project duration, SI will focus on training for trainers by imparting effective training to small groups of selected experienced and English or German proficient persons (presuming that most of the foreign instructors will use one of those languages). Afterwards, by communicating in their national language, these local trained trainers will extend by their knowledge to other people.

SI can thus become the owner of the training process and will consequently assure its sustainability. Also, as an accrued advantage, SI will avoid having its personnel almost fulltime occupied with all the planned training and internships during the project duration.

• Result 3: Information technology infrastructure To attain the efficiency purpose, SI top management is entrusted by the Croatian Government to invest in information technologies for communication and rationalisation. The investment of SI for this purpose amounts to 300.000 EUR. It will be applied mainly on a network to gather and communicate market surveillance data.

SI team of inspectors count up 721 situated in 5 regional offices and38 branch offices all over the country. 520 market inspectors perform their tasks in the market outside their office base.

Inspectors need to produce their documents and register their data in the field. To avoid its present work redundancy, inspectors need computers to capture and transmit their data to the main office. For this purpose the project introduced a supply contract to complement the SI investment on information technology equipment.

Result 3 also takes in the tailored software to realise the accounting management procedures, to improve the SI work-flow and to network with European information systems for market surveillance.


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• Result 4: Coordination. Public relations. Networking This is a multipurpose result. It convenes the market surveillance stakeholders to discuss common concerns and to aim at a national coordinated strategy for market surveillance activities. It will also strengthen the existing SI public relations department and the SI public visibility specially by running two well planned and publicised market surveillance campaigns.

The networking capacities with European information networks will also be improved within this result along with result 3.

Within this result the project envisages to asses the adequacy and consistency of the existing law linked to market surveillance activities and its main endeavours.

• Result 5: Support to conformity assessment bodies Conformity assessment bodies are for market surveillance authorities and independent but a key partner. This result that represents only 5% of the overall allotted means intends to assist the conformity assessment bodies for prioritised regulations on assessing its capabilities and needs as to well to convey several good practices about test plans, the establishment of a "framework contract” to carry out testing for market surveillance authorities and advice on inter-laboratory procedures and a reference equipment needed for market surveillance purposes.

3.2.2 Results This subject already deployed in point 3.2.1 is here summary described according to the logframe along with its indicators.

The project establishes objectives associated with indicators, targets (usually a quantified) a base line and a time frame. An indicator is always described by a quantity, a measuring unit and a measuring method.

Table 1 taken from the logframe, displays the Results, objectives, indicators and targets.

Table 2 shows the cost for each of planned “result”.


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Table 1 Results, objectives, indicators and targets NOTE: the targets in the “OBJECTIVELY VERIFIABLE INDICATORS” are to be met by end-of project and monitored along the project duration

INTERVENTION LOGIC. RESULTS OBJECTIVELY VERIFIABLE INDICATORS R1 (COMPONENT 1) Advanced management tools. a) Management cost accounting by surveyed product and service categories.

OVI-R1 1: Effectively running analytical cost accounting: 100% coverage of product and service categories; correctly imputed data; coherence with consolidated accounts.

b) Balanced score card. OVI-R1 2: Effectively running balanced score card: 100% coverage of SI’s scope; correctly imputed data.

c) SI’s quality management system complying with ISO 9001 Quality management systems - Requirements.

OVI-R1 3: Certified SI conformity to ISO 9001.

R2 (COMPONENT 2) Personnel development Realisation of a training programme targeted to SI personnel during the project duration that would close the training gaps detected.

OVI-R2 1: Training effectiveness for SI's personnel: training gaps overcome in > 90% of initial answers.

Personnel from other market surveillance authorities conformity assessment bodies and SME's will be included for selected training activities.

OVI-R2 1: Training effectiveness for SI's personnel: performance > 10% of initial assessment.

OVI-R2 3: Other trainees and participants: average training assessment > 70%

R3 (COMPONENT 3) Information technology (IT) infrastructure. Adequate IT infrastructure:

OVI-R3 1: SI’s IT department efficiently manages and develops the additional IT functionalities.

a) to carry out the planned management tools; b) to improve the market surveillance work-flow methods and data bases;

OVI-R3 2: availability of additional IT functionalities, > 95% of extended office hours (8 - 18:00).

c) to network with European information systems for market surveillance.

R4 (COMPONENT 4) Coordination. Public relations. Networking Coordination with national and foreign market surveillance authorities, conformity assessment bodies and with related the European Commission departments, namely on the following subjects: methodologies, training programmes and training resources, networking, effectiveness, efficiency and benchmarking.

OVI-R4 1: SI manages to start up a representative coordination group for an agreed coherent market surveillance strategy and policy.

Consolidated reports about safety compliance of technical products on Croatian market commissioned to independent consumer protection organisation.

Implementation of public relations policy: general guidelines; targets (public); objectives; budget; programme; communication channels; evaluation.

OVI-R4 2: SI message conveyed to > 25% of its target audience (HR citizens and enterprises).

Networking: with European transnational systems for market surveillance data.

OVI-R4 3: SI participates in at least one of the international market surveillance networks

R5 (COMPONENT 5) Support to conformity assessment bodies Pilot support to the entire market surveillance chain, especially to its conformity assessment bodies for the prioritised regulations in order to fill up the detected institutional gaps.

OVI-R5 1: Full assessment of all the “market surveillance chain” – from approved adopted EC New Approach Directives to conformity assessment bodies. OVI-R5 2: Launching of a representative coordination group of conformity assessment bodies to discuss, develop and adopt market surveillance common and dedicated procedures.


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Table 2 Cost for each of planned “result” 100% = 1.375.000 € RESULTS % OF COST (EURO)

RESULT 1 Advanced management tools 15%

RESULT 2 Personnel development 17%

RESULT 3 Information technology (IT) infrastructure

9%

IT Equipment 12%

RESULT 4 Coordination. Public relations. Networking

17%

RESULT 5 Support to conformity assessment bodies

5%

Project Management Unit 25%

TOTAL 100%

3.3 Activities and means The project activities and the corresponding means to carry them out are:

R1 Management cost accounting 1.1. Project planning and requirements. Identification of cost objects, direct and indirect costs and cost allocation basis

1.2. Establishment of software specifications jointly with software experts

1.3. Project review, verification, validation and monitoring, jointly with software experts (RESULT 3)

1.4. Management accounting training

1.5. Balanced score card

1.5.1. Project planning, selection of the set of indicators to be used, implementation, validation and monitoring. Data gathering processes and communication policy

1.5.2. Balanced score card training

1.5.3. Establishment of “base line indicators” for results 1(market surveillance coverage) and 4 (public relations)

1.6. Quality management system

1.6.1. Project planning, requirements, implementation, validation and monitoring

1.6.2. Quality management system training

1.6.3. Working procedures training

1.7. Monitoring of equipment purchasing and installation, jointly with software experts

R2 Personnel development 2.1. Management unit for personnel development -Implementation in SI of a “Management unit for personnel development”.

2.2. Preparation and initial application of the personnel performance assessment questionnaire.


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2.3. Establishment of individual training plans for each employee. Organization of an overall training plan for the entire project duration.

2.4. Realization of training programme (themes in spreadsheet “TRAINING” )

2.5. Training internships and study visits during the project duration of 24 months

2.6. Evaluation of training plan

R3 Information technology infrastructure 3.1. Software: Management accounting

3.2. Software: market surveillance work-flow methods and data bases

3.3. Software: network with European information systems for market surveillance

3.4. Training .Operation of SI new software: data collection and transmission

3.5. Monitoring the equipment purchasing and installation jointly with management experts (RESULT1)

3.6. Budget for IT equipment CO-finance on 25% by Croatian Government

R4 Coordination. Public relations. Networking 4.1. Coordination. Advise on setting up a market surveillance council and a national coordinated strategy for market surveillance on technical products, shared with all the other Croatian market surveillance organization and stakeholders.

4.2. Advise on market surveillance legislation

4.3. Advise on coordinated market surveillance activities with customs offices

4.4. Coordination with national and foreign market surveillance authorities, conformity assessment bodies and with related the European Commission departments

4.5. Networking. Advice and training on European Information systems for market surveillance

4.6. Public relations.

4.6.1. Strengthening of the PR management unit in SI

4.6.2. Training on communication policy and methods

4.6.3. Two public campaigns

4.6.4. Preparation, publishing and distribution of brochures on compliance to New Approach Directive of

R5. Support to conformity assessment bodies 5.1. Gap analysis on conformity assessment bodies needs to fit into the market surveillance chain.

5.2. Advice on coordinated activities by a convened group of market surveillance entities and conformity assessment bodies that carry testing and assessment tasks in products covered by New Approach Directives


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5.3. Advice on establishment of a Framework contract between market surveillance entities and Conformity assessment bodies that caring out testing and other assessment tasks on products covered by prioritized New Approach directives

5.4. Advice on test plan for market surveillance entities and Conformity assessment bodies that carry out testing and other assessment tasks on products covered by prioritized New Approach directives

5.5. Advise on inter-laboratory procedures and reference equipment for the market surveillance purposes

3.4 Linked Activities The CARDS 2001 Programme “European Union Industrial Standards” finished in March 2005. It had enabled staff of the State Office for Standardization and Metrology (DZNM), other ministries, testing and calibration laboratories, certification and inspection bodies to extend their knowledge on New and Global Approach.

Furthermore, this project focused on the transposition of 9 NADs, the assessment of the existing quality infrastructure, the participation of experts from DZNM and other interested parties in a number of various training programmes within and outside of the Republic of Croatia, the purchase of equipment for an internet based sale of standards as well as of equipment for calibration laboratories. Representatives of State Inspectorate were involved in working groups established under the project. EU experts supported the State Inspectorate by providing recommendations for the future organization of market surveillance activities.

The CARDS 2004 Programme “Market surveillance strategy in fields of technical products” closed its activities in June 2005. The objective of this project was to further develop the capacity of the market surveillance system in the Republic of Croatia regarding its task to guarantee the free movement of non-food goods (technical products) in Croatia in accordance with EU market surveillance good practice. The main project partner in this project was the State Inspectorate.

The project was converged into two components:

Developing the market surveillance strategy in the field of technical products for SI and supporting the design of a PHARE 2005 project and its documentation.

The following documents were developed during the three months duration of this project:

• Report of the assessment/ gap/ needs analyses of the groups of technical products (domestic end imported) circulating on the Croatian market.

• Report on training needs analysis.

• General test plan for market surveillance activities.

• Report “Conformity Assessment within Market Surveillance”.

• The General Market Surveillance strategy in the field of technical products for SI was prepared and discussed with all relevant stakeholders during the Workshop organized by State Inspectorate for this purpose.

• Project documentation for PHARE 2005 project.


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The CARDS 2002 Regional programme for quality infrastructure started in October 2004. The objectives of the project are to assist the CARDS countries in developing their quality infrastructure in line with the structures of the EU in accordance with TBT and Sap/SAA requirements. The situation of market surveillance in Croatia was assessed by Market Surveillance expert and assessment report was submitted. Report defined development needs for improving existing system of market surveillance by strengthening the co-ordination between the ministries and authorities, organizing regular training together with experts from other countries, participating in seminars and meetings of European Structures, establishment of common information system and using of European information systems etc.

The CARDS 2002 Programme “Capacity Building in the Area of Consumer Protection” will be launched in third quarter of 2005. It aims at strengthening the institutional framework for developing and implementing active Consumer Protection policy and at assisting the Croatian authorities in the design and implementation of the National Consumer Protection Programme. This in turn, will facilitate the application of the recently adopted Consumer Protection Law, the starting point of further legal harmonisation work to be done under this project.

At the beginning of 2005, the CARDS 2003 programme “Development of accreditation systems and support to national testing and calibration laboratories” will be launched. It aims at further harmonizing Croatian technical legislation with the one existing in the EU, enhancing the institutional capacity of various parts of the Croatian Quality Infrastructure (Metrology, Standardization, Accreditation and Conformity Assessment bodies), and further developing the technical capacity of the staff of Metrology, Standardization, Accreditation and Conformity Assessment bodies.

3.5 Lessons learned The project concept and each component were drawn from several lessons learned in implementing institutional building projects: the sustainability and efficiency of an organisation can be reached by:

Placing in top management hands strong management tools with which they can motivate and empower their personnel and get measurable results.

Supporting the career development of their personnel and starting by a coherent training plan.

The extended and rightly use of updated information technologies.

Contacting and collaborating with the main stakeholders which in the market surveillance arena are the national citizens and their consumers associations, economic operators, and the entire institutional infrastructure for quality.

4. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK The State Inspectorate is a central state administration body founded to exclusively perform inspection activities. Its headquarters are located in Zagreb, Ulica Grada Vukovara 78.

Pursuant to the Law, the Inspectorate installed a structure of a head office in Zagreb, 5 regional units in Rijeka, Split, Osijek, Varaždin and Zagreb. and 38 branch offices stretching throughout of country.


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The Chief Inspector, appointed by the Government of the Republic of Croatia is the Inspectorate top manager. He is directly responsible towards the Government for the Inspectorate performance.

The Chief Inspector has a Deputy. Divisions, Departments, Regional Units and Sections have their own manager.

Within their particular organizational unit, part of SI structure, the market surveillance inspectors perform multifunctional inspections in trade of goods and services, work relations and occupational safety, electric power supply, mining, pressure vessels, tourism, catering and in other fields determined by specific laws.

The State Inspectorate is financed by a State Budget allotment approved by the Parliament.

The State Inspectorate employs 721 inspectors of whom 71% hold a university degree and the remaining, that perform less complex inspection activities, having at least a qualification of two years of post secondary school. All inspectors have to pass the Special State Professional Exam which is as well the precondition for independent performance of inspection activities.

The market inspection is covered by 520 inspectors for whom the SI budget determines a specific budget item.

The following Table 2 displays the tasks allocation to the SI’s team of inspectors.

TABLE 3 Team of inspectors at State Inspectorate

TASKS NUMBER OF PERSONS

Market inspectors (technical products) 520 Labour inspectors (for work relations and occupational safety) 168

Electric power supply inspectors 10 Mining inspectors 10 Pressure vessels inspectors 13

TOTAL 721

The State Inspectorate will be the project main beneficiary for this project and will take up the role of national project leader within the twinning management structure.

The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare- Sanitary Inspection, the Ministry of Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development, the Ministry of Environmental protection, Physical Planning and Construction will be involved in the area where they have market surveillance responsibilities. Also, the Ministry of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship will be involved in project.

Through the pre-accession instrument of “twinning” for institutional building, the SI will share and acquire the expertise of a selected public administration in a Member State. Particularly, the twinning advantages will accrue for SI by choosing a partnership with a recent former candidate country.


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Furthermore, the twinning can provide performance benchmarks and the possibility to further develop with a public administration of a Member State an initial project purpose partnership.

The facilitation of communication with partner from former candidate countries could be an added advantage for the project implementation.

The twinning experience could also lead to an increased sharing and complementarily of the national testing capacities.

The project component 4 foresees a market surveillance stakeholders group convened by the SI to address mutual concerns and agree on market surveillance directions and guidelines.

5. DETAILED BUDGET

TABLE 4 Detailed Budget

NOTE: Twinning project: expected budget of the twinning covenant:

Phare / Pre-Accession Instrument support

Co-financing Total Cost

EUR Million National Public Funds (*)

Other Sources (**)

Total Co-financing of Project

Year 2005 - Investment support jointly co funded

SUPPLIES. Project: Croatia. Market surveillance system in the field of technical products

0,2 0,068 0 0,068 0,268

Investment support – sub-total 0,2 0,068 0 0,068 0,268

max 75 % min 25 %

Year 2005 Institution Buildingsupport

Project: Croatia. Market surveillance system in the field of technical products

1,1 0,007 0 0 1,107

IB support 1,1 0,007 0 0 1,107

Total project 2005 1,3 0,075 0 0,075 1,375

(*) Contributions form National, Regional, Local, Municipal authorities and FIs loans to public entities, funds from public enterprises.

(**) Private funds, FIs loans to private entities


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1. All investment sub-projects supported by PHARE must receive co-financing from national public funds. Minimum requirement for co-financing from national public funds is 25% of the combined PHARE and national contributions to the overall investment support.

2. Many Institution building projects will also have a degree of co-financing – this should be quantified and included wherever possible.

3. Expenditure related to equipment (regulatory infrastructure or ESC- related) and to Technical Assistance supporting investment (e.g. pre feasibility study / supervision of works / technical specifications) should be considered as Investment support in the project fiche.

4. All co-financing must be provided on a joint basis. Parallel co-financing will, in a principle, not be accepted. Exceptions to this rule have to be agreed with the Commission in advance.

5. All co-financing should be clearly quantified, also the degree of certainty of such co financing (i.e. for National Public Funds: is it already earmarked in local or national budget, for FIs Loans, private funds: are they already approved/ under appraisal, etc.).

6. Where parallel co financing is accepted and justified per exception to the normal rule it should be provided in monetary form. If this is not possible there should be clear criteria set out for the valuation of any non-monetary contributions (that should be quantified in the table).

7. If twinning is involved, clearly state the expected budget of the twinning covenant.

8. The financial engineering of the project should be closely monitored against actual delivery during implementation and against the objectives that were set in the project fiche so that corrective actions may be taken where required.

6. IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

6.1 Implementing Agency Programme Authorising Officer

Mrs Vladimira Ivandić

Assistant Minister

Ministry of Finance

Katanciceva 5

10000 Zagreb, Republic of Croatia

Senior Programme Officer

Mr. Kruno Kovačević

Chief Inspector

State Inspectorate

Ulica grada Vukovara 78



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6.2 Twinning Twinning National Contact Point

Mr Davor Čilić

Assistant Minister

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration

Petretićev trg 2


6.3 Non-standard aspects The Practical Guide to contract procedures financed from the General Budget of the European Communities in the context of external actions (the PRAG) will be strictly followed.

6.4 Contracts This project will be supported by two contracts: a twinning institution building contract and a supplies contract.

The following Table 2 summarizes the information displayed in point 5 – Detailed budget on the involved amounts in Euro, broken down by contract and year.

TABLE 5 Project budget broken down by contract and year. Million Euro

CONTRACT YEAR 1 EC-

PHARE NATIONAL CO-FINANCING

TOTAL YEAR 1 (2) + (3)

1 2 3 4 SUPPLIES 0,2 0,068 0,268

TWINNING 1,1 0,007 1,107

TOTALS 1,3 0,075 1,375

7. IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE

Annex 2 details the implementation schedule for all the 24 months of project duration. However at the present stage the project hasn’t yet established any date for start of tendering / call for proposals, Start of project activity and project completion.

The last payment under last contract will be done right after the 24 months of project duration.

8. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY The project is neutral in respect of combating gender and other socio-cultural unequal opportunities.

9. ENVIRONMENT The project does not directly involve activities with an environmental impact.


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10. RATES OF RETURN "Not applicable"

11. INVESTMENT CRITERIA The present 1.3 million Euro institutional building project goes along with a 25% co-financed investment component of 268 thousand euro to provide for the project related information technology equipment.

This EU investment will trigger the use of a matching SI investment of 300 thousand euro prearranged to improve the SI efficiency by the rational and full use of an updated information technology.

12. CONDITIONALITY AND SEQUENCING The institution building project will be based on twinning contract and the main conditionality will be to find a suitable partner. Therefore the State Inspectorate, the project main beneficiary should start by looking for a knowledgeable and cooperative partner.

This project anticipates sufficient indicators, measuring methods and quantified targets to follow up its performance that at the same time represents the performance the market surveillance system in Croatia.


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ANNEXES TO THE PROJECT FICHE

ANNEX 1 Project logical framework

ANNEX 2 Detailed implementation chart

ANNEX 3 Cumulative contracting and disbursement schedule

ANNEX 4 Reference list of documents produced during the preparatory mission “CARDS 2004 Market Surveillance Strategy in the field of technical products – Zagreb 14 March – 13 June 2005. Contract N° 2005/99729”. (Available after the end of this mission).

ANNEX 5 Reference list of relevant laws and regulations

ANNEX 6 Reference list of relevant plans and studies


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Acronyms and abbreviations

AP Accession Partnership ASP Assumption BC Beneficiary Country CAB Conformity assessment body CARDS Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation CFCU Central Finance and Contracts Unit D, d Day DAS Daily Subsistence Allowance (per diem) DG General Directorate (European commission) DZNM State Office for Standardization and Metrology EC European Commission ECS Economic and Social Cohesion EQP Equipment EU European Union FI Financial Institutions HAA Hrvatska Akreditacijska Agencija (Croatian Accreditation Agency) HMI Hrvatski Mjeriteljski Institut (Croatian Institute for Metrology) HR Hrvatska (Croatia) HZN Hrvatski Zavod za Norme (Croatian Office for Standardisation) IB Institution Building ICSMS Information and Communication System for Cross-Border Market

Surveillance IE International expert IEC International Electrotechnical Commission ISO International Organisation for Standardisation IT Information technology LE Local expert LFM Logframe Matrix LT Long Term (Expert) m Month MFAEI Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration (Croatia) MELE Ministry of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship (Croatia) MS Member State NAC National Aid Co-ordinator NAD New Approach Directive NGO Non-Governmental Organisation NPAA National programme of Adoption of Acquis Communautaire NPO Non-Profit Organisation OVI Objectively verifiable indicator OVO Overall objective


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PAAN EU Pre-Accession Assistance Needs of the Republic of Croatia PAO Programme Authorising Officer PC Pre-condition PCM Project Cycle Management PD-T Per diem PJP Project purpose PMU Project Management Unit PR Public Relations RAPEX Rapid Alert System for Non-Food Products RTA Resident Twinning Adviser SAA Stabilisation and Association Agreement SAP Stabilisation and Association process SI State Inspectorate (Croatia) SME Small and medium sized enterprises ST Short term SV Service TBT Technical Barriers to Trade TRV-LOC Local travel TRV-INT International travel YR Year WTO World Trade Organization

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Annex 1 Project logical framework

Market Surveillance System in the Field of Technical Products Programme name and number

PHARE 2005 HR2005/4/1

Contracting period expires: 30.11.2007

Execution of contracts period expires: 30.11.2008

State Inspectorate

Total budget : 1.375.000 € PHARE budget : 1.300.000 €

Overall objective Objectively Verifiable Indicators(*) Sources of Verification

Contribute to further develop the capacity of the market surveillance system in Croatia regarding its task to guarantee the safety and compliance of technical products (non-food products) in accordance with EU market surveillance good practice.

OVI-OVO 1: Significantly improved safety compliance of technical products submitted to market surveillance on Croatian market.

- Consolidated reports about safety compliance of technical products on Croatian market issued by the “Market Surveillance Coordination Group” (RESULT3).

Project purpose Objectively Verifiable Indicators Sources of Verification Assumptions

Efficient and sustainable capacity of SI – State Inspectorate to carry out market surveillance activities in accordance with EU good practice and in cooperation with other national market surveillance authorities.

- OVI-PJP 1: Significantly improved market surveillance inspection coverage for SI’s technical products, including those of newly transposed EC New Approach Directives, maintaining SI its corresponding operational costs.

- Indicators from project implemented SI’s “Balanced score card”.

- ASP-PJP 1: Development of SI’s best practices and its adoption by the whole SI and by other market surveillance authorities, and conformity assessment bodies.

- OVI-PJP 2: SI’s organisational purpose recognised by > 25% of HR citizens and enterprises.

- Outsourced bi-annual survey. - ASP-PJP 2: Awareness of HR citizens, its consumer protection organisations and media of the advantages of a functioning market surveillance system followed by manufacturers’ practice to produce recognisably compliant products.

- OVI-PJP 3: SI’s services recognised for its good results by > 66% of the above statistical universe of HR citizens and enterprises that recognizes SI.

- ASP-PJP 3: Testing laboratories adapt and improve its capacity to market surveillance needs, namely benefiting from other technical assistance projects.

- ASP-PJP 4: Full enforcement in Croatia of New Approach Directives that

(*) All the values for the “OBJECTIVELY VERIFIABLE INDICATORS” are to be met by end-of project and monitored along the project duration.

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concerns the SI competencies.

Results Objectively Verifiable Indicators Sources of Verification Assumptions

R1 (COMPONENT 1 Advanced management tools.

a) Management cost accounting by surveyed product and service categories.

- OVI-R1 1: Effectively running analytical cost accounting: 100% coverage of product and service categories; correctly imputed data; coherence with consolidated accounts.

- Reports from the person responsible for this management tool. Statement of accounting auditor.

- ASP-R1 1: SI capacity to analyse at least through the first and second managements line cost accounting data and take decisions to rationalise the costs.

b) Balanced score card. - OVI-R1 2: Effectively running balanced score card: 100% coverage of SI’s scope; correctly imputed data.

- Reports from the person responsible for this management tool.

- ASP-R1 2: Availability of data about social and economic benefits of market surveillance activities (even if from other countries) to allow weighing cost to benefits.

c) SI’s quality management system complying with ISO 9001 Quality management systems - Requirements.

- OVI-R1 3: Certified SI conformity to ISO 9001.

- Statement of conformity issued by the HR Accreditation Body.

- ASP-R1 3: Availability of SI resources to follow-up the implementations of a quality management system and then carrying on improving it.

R2 (COMPONENT 2) Human resources

development

Realisation of a training programme targeted to SI personnel during the project duration that would close the training gaps detected.

- OVI-R2 1: Training effectiveness for SI's personnel: training gaps overcome in > 90% of initial answers.

- Same “training needs questionnaire” used to detect the initial training gaps.

- Result 2 >> Project purpose

- ASP-R2 1: Training aligned with SI‘s new and current working methods.

Personnel from other market surveillance

Authorities, conformity assessment bodies and

SME's will be included for selected training activities.

- OVI-R2 1: Training effectiveness for SI's personnel: performance > 10% of initial assessment.

- Performance assessment questionnaire.

- ASP-R2 2: Training effectiveness.

- OVI-R2 3: Other trainees and participants: average training assessment > 70%

- Training assessment questionnaire

R3 (COMPONENT 3) Information technology

(IT) infrastructure.

- OVI-R3 1: SI’s IT department efficiently manages and develops the additional IT functionalities.

- Reports from SI’s IT department.


- ASP-R3 1: IT training aligned with functionalities of SI‘s new IT infrastructure.

Adequate IT infrastructure:

a) to carry out the planned management tools;

b) to improve the market surveillance work-flow

- OVI-R3 2: availability of additional IT

functionalities > 95% of extended office hours (8 - 18:00).

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methods and data bases;

c) to network with European information systems for market surveillance.

R4 (COMPONENT 4) Coordination. Public relations. Networking

Coordination with national and foreign market surveillance authorities, conformity assessment bodies and with related the European Commission departments, namely on the following subjects: methodologies, training programmes and training resources, networking, effectiveness, efficiency and benchmarking.

- OVI-R4 1: SI manages to start up

a representative coordination group for an

agreed coherent market surveillance strategy and policy.

- Activity reports of the coordination group.


- ASP-R4 1: Willingness of cooperating entities to establish common goals.

Consolidated reports about safety compliance of technical products on Croatian market commissioned to independent consumer protection organisation.

- OVI-R4 2: SI message conveyed to

> 25% of its target audience (HR citizens and enterprises).

- Outsourced bi-annual survey. - ASP-R4 2: motivating message conveyed by SI.

Networking: with European trans national systems for market surveillance data.

- OVI-R4 3: SI participates in at least one

of the international market surveillance network.

- Public displayed information on

website of market surveillance

network.

- ASP-R4 3: SI is accepted by international market surveillance networks (as ICSMS) as a participating partner.

R5 (COMPONENT 5) Support to conformity assessment bodies

Pilot support to the entire market surveillance chain, especially to its conformity assessment bodies for the prioritised regulations in order to fill up the detected institutional gaps.

- OVI-R5 1: Full assessment of all the “market surveillance chain” – from approved adopted EC New Approach Directives to conformity assessment bodies.

- OVI-R5 2: Launching of a representative

coordination group of conformity assessment

bodies to discuss, develop and adopt market surveillance common and dedicated procedures.

- Project bi-annual survey with a

specific checklist covering all the

“market surveillance chain”.

- ASP-R5 1: Willingness of the entities of the “market surveillance chain” to fill up the institutional gaps detected.

Activities Means Assumptions

R1 Management cost accounting

R1-A1: Project planning and requirements. Identification of cost objects, direct and indirect costs and cost

For all the activities two contracts will be signed:

- twinning: 1.100.000 EUR

- ASP-A1 Availability of qualified local experts

- ASP-A2 Disposability of SI staffs to

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allocation basis

R1-A2:Establishment of software specifications jointly with software experts

R1-A3:Project review, verification, validation and monitoring, jointly with software experts (RESULT 3)

R1-A4:training

R1 Balanced score card

R1-A5: Project planning, selection of the set of indicators to be used, implementation, validation and monitoring. Data gathering processes and communication policy

R1-A6:Training

R1-A7: Establishment of “base line indicators” for results 1(market surveillance coverage) and 4 (public relations)

R1 Quality management system

R1-A8: Project planning, requirements, implementation, validation and monitoring

R1-A9: Training

R1-A10: Working procedures training

R1-A11: Monitoring of equipment purchasing and installation, jointly with software experts

- supplies : 200.000 EUR

- incl co-financing for supplies: 68.000EUR

- incl voluntary co-financing for twinning: 7.000 EUR

TOTAL: 1.375.000 EUR

carry put transitional tasks

- ASP-A3 Openness and willingness for institutional improvement and changes among the SI management and employees.

R2-A1 Management unit for personnel development

Implementation in SI of a “Management unit for personnel development”.

R2-A2: Preparation and initial application of the personnel performance assessment questionnaire.

R2-A3: Establishment of individual training plans for each employee. Organization of an overall training plan for the entire project duration.

R2-A4: Realization of training programme (themes in spreadsheet “TRAINING” )

R2-A5: training internships and study visits during the


- ASP-A2 Disposability of SI personnel to carry out transitional tasks

- ASP-A3 Openness and willingness for institutional improvement and changes among the SI management and employees.

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project duration of 24 months

R2-A6: Evaluation of training plan

R3 –A1: Management accounting

R3-A2: Software: market surveillance work-flow methods and data bases

R3-A3: Software: network with European information systems for market surveillance

R3-A4: Training .Operation of SI new software: data collection and transmission

R3-A5: Monitoring the equipment purchasing and installation jointly with management experts (RESULT1)

R3-A6: Budget for IT equipment CO-finance on 25% by Croatian Government


- ASP-A2 Disposability of SI personnel to carry out transitional tasks

- ASP-A3 Openness and willingness for institutional improvement and changes among the SI management and employees

- ASP-A4 Availability of adequate hardware

R4-A1: Coordination. Advise on setting up a market surveillance council and a national coordinated strategy for market surveillance on technical products, shared with all the other Croatian market surveillance organization and stakeholders.

R4-A2: Advise on market surveillance legislation

R4-A3: Advise on coordinated market surveillance activities with customs offices

R4-A4: Coordination with national and foreign market surveillance authorities, conformity assessment bodies and with related the European Commission departments

R4-A5: Networking. Advice and training on European Information systems for market surveillance

R4-A6: Public relations. Strengthening of the PR management unit in SI

R4-A7: Training on communication policy and methods

R4-A8: Two public campaigns

R4-A9: Preparation, publishing and distribution of brochures on compliance to New Approach Directive of


- ASP-A2 Disposability of SI personnel and other to carry out transitional tasks


- ASP-A4 Openness and willingness for institutional improvement and changes among the management and employees of other market surveillance authorities

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specific product types intended for SMEs

R5-A1: Gap analysis on conformity assessment bodies needs to fit into the market surveillance chain.

R5-A2: Advice on coordinated activities by a convened group of market surveillance entities an conformity assessment bodies that carry testing and assessment tasks in products covered by New Approach Directives

R5-A3: Advice on establishment of a Framework contract between market surveillance entities and Conformity assessment bodies that caring out testing and other assessment tasks on products covered by prioritized New Approach directives

R5-A4: Advice on test plan for market surveillance entities and Conformity assessment bodies that carry out testing and other assessment tasks on products covered by prioritized New Approach directives.

R5-A5: Advise on inter-laboratory procedures and reference equipment for the market surveillance purposes.


- ASP-A2 Disposability of SI personnel and other to carry out transitional tasks


- ASP-A4 Openness and willingness for institutional improvement and changes among the management and employees of conformity assessment bodies

ACRONYMS and ABBREVIATIONS

ASP Assumptions HR Croatia OVI Objectively verifiable indicator R Result

EC European Commission ICSMS Information and Communication System for Cross-Border Market Surveillance

OVO Overall objective SI State Inspectorate

EU European Union IT Information technology PJP Project purpose

Project Nº 2004/0005 Croatia - Market surveillance system in the field of technical products ANNEX 2 TO THE PROJECT FICHE. DETAILED IMPLEMENTATION CHART - Twinning project 1 st YEAR - QUATER - MONTH 2 nd YEAR - QUATER - MONTH

1 QUARTER 2 QUARTER 3 QUARTER 4 QUARTER 1 QUARTER 2 QUARTER 3 QUARTER 4 QUARTER

RESULT AND ACTIVITY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R1 Advanced management tools Durations. % of accomplishment » 18% 41% 62% 74% 83% 93% 97% 100% R1-A1 Management cost accounting

Project planning and requirements. R1-A2 Management cost accounting

Establishment of software specifications jointly with sofware experts.

R1-A3 Management cost accounting

Project review, verification, validation and monitoring, jointly with software experts (RESULT 3).

R1-A4 Management accounting: training R1-A50 Balanced score card

Project planning, selection of indicators, implementation, validation and monitoring. Communication policy.

R1-A6 Balanced score card: training

R1-A7 Balanced score card:

Establishment of "base line indicators" for results 1 and 4. R1-A8 Quality management system

Project planning, requirements, implementation, validation and monitoring.

R1-A9 Quality management system:

Training R1-A10 Quality management system.

Working procedures: training R1-A11 Monitoring of equipment purchasing and

instalation, jointly with software experts (RESULT 3)

R2 Personnel development Durations. % of accomplishment » 11% 36% 49% 61% 74% 86% 99% 100% R2-A1 Management unit for personnel development

R2-A2 Preparation and initial application of a personnel

performance assessment questionnaire. R2-A3 Establishment individual training plans

R2-A4 Realisation of the training plan

R2-A5 Trainee/ internships and study visits

R2-A6 Evaluation of the training plan.

R3 Information technology infrastructure Durations. % of accomplishment » 0% 0% 18% 35% 74% 93% 100% 100% R3-A1 Software: Management accounting

R3-A2 Software: market surveillance work-flow

R3-A3 Software: Network with European information

systems for market surveillance R3-A4 Training. Operation of SI’s new software:

R3-A5 Monitoring of equipment purchasing

and installation jointly with management experts (RESULT1)

Equipment R4 Coordination. Public relations. Networking Durations. % of accomplishment » 0% 8% 31% 56% 64% 79% 97% 100%

R4-A1 Coordination. Advice on seting up a market and a national coordinated strategy for market surveillance R4-A2 Coordination. Advice on coordinated market surveillance activities with customs offices. R4-A3 Coordination with national and foreign market surveillance authorities, conformity assessment bodies

and with related the European Commission departments.

R4-A4 Networking. Advice and training on European information systems for market surveillance R4-A5 Public relations. Strenghtening of the "Public relations management unit" in SI: Structure, responsibilities work

plan, budget, procedures and data bases.

R4-A6 Public relations. Training. Communication policy and methods. R4A-A7 Public relations campaigns R4-A8 Preparation, publishing and distribution of brochures on compliance to New Approach Directive of specific

product types , intended for SME's.

R4-A9 Advice on market surveillance legislation Verification of its adequacy and consistency R5 Support to conformity assessment bodies

Durations. % of accomplishment » 0% 0% 47% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

R5-A1 Gap analysis on conformity assessment bodies R5-A2 Advice on co-ordinated activities by a convened group of market surveillance entities and CAB's R5-A3 Advice on establishment of a "framework contract" between market surveillance entities and CAB's R5-A4 Advice on test plans for market surveillance entities and conformity assessment bodies that carry out testing R5-A5 Advice on inter-laboratory procedures and reference equipment for market surveillance purposes. TABLE 7 PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT IN CROATIA

Durations. % of accomplishment » 13% 25% 38% 50% 63% 75% 88% 100%

PMU Project Management Unit in Croatia

Project Nº 2004/0005 Croatia - Market surveillance system in the field of technical products ANNEX 3 TO THE PROJECT FICHE COMULATIVE CONTRACTING AND DISBURSEMENT SCHEDULE. EURO. Twinning project

TABLE 1 Cumulative contracting schedule by quarters. European Commission budget. EURO

1 st YEAR 2 nd YEAR

CONTRACT 1 QUARTER 2 QUARTER 3 QUARTER 4 QUARTER 1 QUARTER 2 QUARTER 3 QUARTER 4 QUARTER TOTAL

1 Twinning Project 517.000 803.000 990.000 1.100.000 1.100.000

NOTES 1 2 2 3

2 Supplies 200.000 200.000

TOTAL 517.000 803.000 1.190.000 1.300.000 1.300.000

NOTE 1 Pre-financing of 80% of the budget of the Twinning Contract. Ref. 1 - 7.2 2 Subsequent pre-financing payment. Ref. 1 - 7.2 3 Final payment 10% . Ref. 1 - 7.2

TABLE 2 Cumulative contracting schedule by quarters. Croatian Government budget. EURO

1 st YEAR 2 nd YEAR


1 Twinning Project 7.000

NOTES 1

2 Supplies 68.000 68.000

TOTAL 75.000

NOTE 1 Travel along the project Ref. 1 - 5.12

TABLE 3 Cumulative disbursement schedule by quarters. European Commission budget. EURO 1 st YEAR 2 nd YEAR


1 Twinning Project 88.000 251.338 453.691 646.569 790.764 929.137 1.047.612 1.100.000 1.100.000

2 Supplies 200.000 200.000 200.000 200.000 200.000

TOTAL 88.000 251.338 453.691 646.569 990.764 1.129.137 1.247.612 1.300.000 1.300.000

TABLE 4 Cumulative disbursement schedule by quarters. Croatian Government budget. EURO 1 st YEAR 2 nd YEAR


1 Twinning Project 7.000

2 Supplies 68.000 68.000

TOTAL 75.000

ANNEX 4. Reference list of documents produced during the preparatory mission “CARDS 2004 Market Surveillance Strategy in the field of technical products"

ITEM SUBJECT

1 2

1 Report of the assessment/ gap/ needs analyses of the groups of technical

products (domestic end imported) circulating on the Croatian market.

2 Report on training needs analysis

3 General test plan for market surveillance activities

4 Report “Conformity Assessment within Market Surveillance”.

5 The Market Surveillance strategy in the field of technical products for SI

12.1.1 ANNEX 5 Reference l ist of relevant laws and regulat ions

12.1.2 Market surveil lance in the f ield of technical products. Legal framework IT

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SUBJECT STAGE OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF HR

RELATED EUROPEAN DIRECTIVES

1 2 3 4 5

General and State Inspectorate law

1 Law on organization and scope of central state administration bodies. Approved 199/03, 30/04, 136/04, 22/05.

NA

2 Act on State Inspector’s Office. Approved 76/99, 96/03, 151/03, 160/04, 174/04, 33/05,

48/05.

NA

3 Ordinance on internal constitution of State inspectors Office Approved 66/05 NA

Infrastructures for quality

4 Law on technical requirements for products and on Conformity Assessment Approved 158/03 NA

Standardisation

5 Standardisation Act. Approved 163/03 NA

6 Ordinance on the establishment of the Croatian Standardisation Agency. Approved 158/04 NA

Metrology

7 Law on Metrology Approved 163/03 NA

Accreditation

8 Accreditation Act Approved 158/03 NA

9 Ordinance on the establishment of the Croatian Accreditation Agency Approved 158/04 NA

Personal Data Protection

ITEM

SUBJECT STAGE OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF

HR RELATED

EUROPEAN DIRECTIVES

1 2 3 4 5

10 Personal Data Protection Act. Amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act and the Act ratifying the Council of Europe Convention 108 of 28 January 1981 for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data.

Approved 103/03 95/46/EC

11 Regulation on the manner of keeping the records of personal data filing systems and a pertinent records form.

Approved 105/04

12 Regulation on the procedure for storage and special measures relating to the technical protection of special categories of personal data.

Approved 139/04

Transposition of EU New Approach Directives directly related with SI tasks

13 Law on General Product Safety Approved 158/03 2001/95 EC

14 Ordinance on Low voltage equipment. Fully harmonized with EEC directive. Partially implemented from 1 January 2007.

Expected to be approved by end of 2005.

73/23/EEC

15 Ordinance on Non-automatic weighing instruments; technical requirements and conformity assessment. Fully harmonised with EC directive.


16 Ordinance on Electromagnetic compatibility. Partially harmonized. Approved 16/05 89/336/EEC

17 Ordinance on Radio and telecommunications terminal equipment. Partially harmonized with EC directive. Implementation 8 days from publication in the OG.


18 Construction products: EC Directive partially transposed through a number of Ordinances. Further harmonisation is planned in 2005.

Approved 1/05

64/05

89/106/EEC

19 Explosives for civil use. EC directive planned to be transposed in the last quarter of 2005 as three Ordinances based on the Explosive Substances Act.

Expected to be approved by end of 2005

93/15/EEC and 2004/57/EC

20 Ordinance on Personal protective equipment. Fully harmonized with EEC directive. Expected to be approved by the end of 2005

89/686/EEC

21 Ordinance on Energy efficiency requirements for household electric refrigerators and freezers. Fully harmonized with EC directive. Partially implemented from 1 January 2007 at the latest.

Expected to be approved by the end of 2005

96/57/EC

22 Ordinance on Pressure equipment. Fully harmonized with EC directive. Implementation from the date of entry of Croatia to the EU at the latest.


97/23/EC

ITEM

SUBJECT STAGE OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF

HR RELATED

EUROPEAN DIRECTIVES

1 2 3 4 5

23 Ordinance on Simple pressure Vessels. Fully harmonized with EEC directive. Implementation from the date of entry of Croatia to the EU at the latest.


87/404/EEC

24 Ordinance on Lifts. Fully harmonized with EC directive. Partially implemented from 1 January 2007 at the latest.


95/16/EC

25 Ordinance on Machine, Fully harmonized with EC directive. Partially Implemented from 1 January 2007 at the latest.


98/37/EC

26 Ordinance on Appliances burning gaseous fuels. Fully harmonized with EEC directive. Partially implemented from 1 January 2007 at the latest.


90/396/EEC

27 Ordinance on Hot water boilers. Fully harmonized with EEC directive. Partially implemented from 1 January 2007 at the latest.


92/42/EEC

Transposition of EU New Approach Directives not directly related with SI tasks

28 Toys.

Ordinance on conditions related to health and safety of general usage items that may be placed on the market incorporates the Directive 88/378/EEC on the safety of toys. Official Gazette 42/04. Partially harmonised. It is planned to adopt the General Commodities Act plus the relevant subordinate legislation which will govern the area of children's toys and thus wholly take over the Directive 88/378/EEC on the Safety of Toys.

1 Ordinance Approved/ Expected to be approved by the end of 2005

42/04 88/378/EEC

29 Ordinance on Marine equipment. Fully harmonized with EEC directive Approved 20/05 96/98/EEC

30 ATEX. EC directive partially transposed in 1999, further alignment is planed in the last quarter of 2005 as Ordinance


94/9/EC

31 Ordinance on boats and yachts. Fully harmonized. Approved 27/05 94/25/EC

32 Medical devices, general. Fully harmonized with EEC directive. Implementation 8 days from publication in the OG.


93/42/EEC

33 Active implantable medical devices. Fully harmonized with EEC directive. Implementation 8 days from publication in the OG.


90/385/EEC

34 In vitro diagnostic medical devices.Fully harmonized Implementation 8 days from publication in the OG


98/79/EEC

ANNEX 6. Reference list of relevant plans and studies

ITEM SUBJECT STAGE OFFICIAL

GAZZ.

1 2 3 4

1 National program for integration of the Republic of Croatia

Approved

into the EU -2005

2 National strategy for harmonization of technical Approved legislation with legislation of the EU -2003

3 National program for consumer protection 2005-2006 Approved 31/05

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