icphso2010 Annual Meeting and Training

Symposium Washington DC

15th February 2010

Stakeholders response to OECDDraft report on Enhancing Information

Sharing on Consumer Product Safety

Mark Dewar Simmons & Simmons

Stakeholders response to OECDDraft report on Enhancing Information Sharing on

Consumer Product Safety

• Summary of OECD proposal– Short term: pool info into web based platform– Medium term: carry info re regulatory activities,

password website access– Long term: universal approach to collection of data;

limits potential for assembly info from multiple jurisdictions

Stakeholders response to OECD

Initial industry response• Evaluate time and resource allocation• Develop programs and systems to facilitate info sharing• Use of regional conferences?• Assurances that info will be vetted ‘and purged of false

accusations, misinformation’• Perceived vs actual hazards

3 hatted response: commercial and legal issues

Stakeholders response to OECD

• Commercial– Intellectual property:

lot of work to create database interfaces

– Who will own them?– Finance: will each

block fund? Web portal,est database; datatype format

– Access procedures

• Legal– Web portal system

• Web portal; or • 1 database

– Crime prevention: assess risks of intervention

– Encryption and security

• Develop different levels of access?

Stakeholders response to OECD

• Commercial– Third party operators– If create a database: who will

own it– Changes to data protection

legislation– Who will have access– Success depends on each

contributor’s content up to date

– Common format– Commercial

sensitivity/suppress commercially sensitive info

– Harmonisation of procedures and standards? Whose?

• Legal– Ownership of data

• Who will own IP in the data & database

• Value in ownership and data mining rights eg to detect buying trends

– EU database directive needs to be overcome to allow movement of data between respective international database jurisdictions

– solutions:• Collective development• Logically held centrally by

one party licensed to other parties

• Anonymise data