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In May and June 2014, two consecutive events on the GS scheme (“safety tested”) took place in Beijing.

On the occasion of a series of events from 5 to 9 May 2014, representatives of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (AQSIQ), the German Central  Authority for Safety of the Länder (ZLS) and the local market surveillance authorities of the provinces Sichuan, Shenzhen and Guangdong discussed the basic aspects of the legislation and the execution of market surveillance in Germany and China.

 

On 1 April 2014, a workshop on “Testing methods of determination of Chromium VI content” was held in Berlin hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) as a part of a study tour about requirements for reference materials.

The Quality Infrastructure Project deals with a common definition of the requirements on reference materials of inorganic elements in toys for Germany and China.

From 12 March to 13 March 2014, the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and the Central Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (AQSIQ) were jointly invited to an expert workshop on product labels of industrially used products in Nanjing.