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100 1 0 _aGalland, Jean-Pierre
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245 0 0 _aThe Difficulty of Building an Independent European Expertise
260 _c2013.
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520 _aThis article describes the notified bodies’ invention, by the European Commission, in the follow-on of the New Approach to Technical Harmonisation and Standards framework. These bodies, whose function is to certify that products entering the European Market conform to essential safety requirements worded inside diverse directives, are appointed by Member States but compete against one another at the European level. The article considers the consequences of this situation and the Commission efforts so to maintain both the independence and the competences of these new European experts. Based on an empirical work, it proposes two ways for complementary research : on one hand, after a first analysis of the certification methods used in the medical devices sector, it suggests to investigate more deeply the “black box” of this new and barely visible expertise ; on the other hand, it invites to systematic studies on the population of notified bodies, whose diffuse and discreet acts take part significantly in markets and risks regulation in Europe.
690 _aNew Approach
690 _anotified body
690 _amarket regulation
690 _aEurope
690 _aexpertise
690 _astandardisation
690 _aaccreditation
690 _acertification
786 0 _nRevue d'anthropologie des connaissances | 7o 1 | 1 | 2013-03-04 | p. 223-246
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-anthropologie-des-connaissances-2013-1-page-223?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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