Robust enforcement of these requirements is essential to the proper protection of these interests and to create the conditions in which fair competition in the Union goods market, online and offline, can thrive. Rules are therefore necessary on market surveillance, online and offline and on controls of products entering the Union from third countries.

(20) Obliging the authorities responsible for the control of products entering the Union market to carry out checks on an adequate scale therefore contributes to a safer Union market for products.

(20) Obliging the authorities responsible for the control of products entering the Union market to carry out checks on an adequate scale therefore contributes to a safer Union market for products.

Customs authorities apply controls on goods entering and exiting the Community based upon a common risk management framework, including the use of random checks.

check of circuits and components representing a risk of leakage with gas detection devices adapted to the refrigerant in the system.

29. Reiterates its request that, within the framework of Community development policy, the Commission should not limit its efforts to providing technical assistance at a strictly trade-related level but should place more emphasis on building agricultural, commercial and institutional capacity, as well as the capacity of small and medium-sized businesses in developing countries – which are important if the benefits of trade and development are to be spread as widely as possible – and as regards monitoring marketing circuits, so as to face up to competition from products from the European Union or from other developed countries;