UNECE CONFERENCE
November 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE "CE" mark, denoting that a product was made in the European Union, is being abused by unscrupulous manufacturers and traders and is giving legitimate companies a bad name according to delegates at a recent international forum on market surveillance.The Geneva forum, hosted by a UNECE (United Nations EconomicCommission for Europe) working party on Technical Harmonisation andStandardisation Policies, was told that "rubbish" made in China and someeastern European countries was using the CE mark to mislead consumers."The European Commission refuses ...
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