(RASFF) Annual Report 2009 - European Commission - Europa

Annual Report 2009
2009: RASFF
NOTIFICATIONS
BY NUMBERS
In 2009, a total of 3322 original notifications were transmitted through the
RASFF, of which 1796 market notifications, 1484 border rejections and 42 news
notifications. 578 market notifications were classified as alerts, and 1218 as
information notifications. These original notifications gave rise to 4767 followup
notifications, representing on average about 1.4 follow-ups per original
notification.
These figures represent a 5.8 % increase in original notifications and more
importantly, a 17.7 % increase in follow-up notifications; resulting in an overall
increase of 13.4 %.
2009 NOTIFICATIONS CLASSIFICATION
3500 follow-up notification
original notification
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2500
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1500
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500
0
alert information border rejection news
After receipt of additional information, 21 alert notifications, 27 information
notifications and 28 border rejections were withdrawn 3 . Notifications that
were withdrawn and news notifications are further excluded from statistics
and charts.
The European Commission decided, after consulting the notifying countries,
not to upload 67 notifications onto the system since, after evaluation, they
were found not to satisfy the criteria for a RASFF notification (rejected
notifications).
RASFF notifications are triggered by a variety of things. When notifications are
classified according to the basis of the notification, the chart below is obtained.
Most notifications concern controls at the border posts of the outer EEA
borders 4 , in most cases when the consignment was not accepted for import
(“border rejection”). In some cases, a sample was taken for analysis at the border
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3 State of play on 5 January 2010
4 Since 2009, including Switzerland for products of animal origin