EU support for joint market surveillance actions for non-food products

Call: EU support for joint market surveillance actions for non-food products

Programme

Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Acronym

DG GROWTH

Type of Fund

Action programme

Description of programme
"Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs"

The Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) is the European Commission service responsible for:

completing the Internal Market for goods and services
helping turn the EU into a smart, sustainable, and inclusive economy by implementing the industrial and sectorial policies of the flagship Europe 2020 initiative
fostering entrepreneurship and growth by reducing the administrative burden on small businesses; facilitating access to funding for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and supporting access to global markets for EU companies. All of these actions are encapsulated in the Small Business Act
generating policy on the protection and enforcement of industrial property rights, coordinating the EU position and negotiations in the international intellectual property rights (IPR) system, and assisting innovators on how to effectively use IP rights
delivering the EU's space policy via the two large-scale programmes Copernicus (European Earth observation satellite system) and Galileo (European global navigation satellite system), as well research actions to spur technological innovation and economic growth

Link

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Call

EU support for joint market surveillance actions for non-food products

Description of call
"EU support for joint market surveillance actions for non-food products"

The present all has three objectives:

Keep non-compliant products from the single market: Support to authorities in their market surveillance activities and in their compliance promotion activities. This would also include financial support for joint actions to control the compliance of non-food products put for sale on the single market in the context of the COVID-19 sanitary crisis, to protect consumers against the propagation of the virus.
Support the application of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
Increase skills and knowledge in the following areas.

ICSMS: how to use ICSMS (Information and Communication System on Market Surveillance), how to decide which data to input, how to correctly input data, how to perform analysis using the Kibana dashboard;
E-commerce: how to implement best practices for e-commerce, how to better perform online investigations, how to enforce post-inspection corrective measures;
Legislation: understand the relationship between ‘neighbouring’ legislation (e.g. RED/EMC, PED/TPED, TEXTILE/REACH).

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Thematic Focus

Children & Youth, Education & Training, Clustering, Development Cooperation, Economic Cooperation, Health, Social Affairs, Sports, Justice, Safety & Security

Funding area

EFTA countries
EEA Countries
EU Member States

Origin of Applicant

EFTA countries
EEA Countries
EU Member States

Eligible applicants

NGO / NPO, Federal State / Region / City / Municipality / Local Authority, Research Institution, Lobby Group / Professional Association / Trade Union, National Government, University, Education and Training Centres

Project Partner

Yes

Project Partner Details

In order to be eligible, a proposal must be submitted by a consortium composed of legal entities from several Member States (minimum 3 Member States)

Project duration max

24 months

Type of Funding

Grants

Financial details

Total budget: 3 million €

Amount per project: max. 700.000 €
The Commission expects to fund 5-6 projects.
Co-financing rate: max. 90%

Submission