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Joint Dinner Debate on Automated Driving and Road Safety on November 19, 2018 in Brussels |
“In the future, it will no longer be all about oil and rust, but primarily about bits and bytes.”
In view of the very limited budgetary resources of the Member States, an expansion of market surveillance will only be possible to a very limited extent in future. As a complement to market surveillance, testing and certification of products by independent third parties in Europe, which is generally voluntary, is an effective instrument in order to maintain the necessary level of consumer protection. Preventive testing of products by independent bodies and market surveillance by public authorities can be considered complementary instruments to ensure that products in the Single Market are safe and conforming.
