Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego. Problemy Zarządzania, Finansów i Marketingu

The new approach covers the products or issues that may threaten the safety, health of the consumer or environmental protection. The purpose of the paper is to examine the mutual interdependence of the notifications on the new approach from the Western and Eastern European Union (EU) countries. Number of notification (allowing the assessment of compliance in respect of the new approach) from Western EU countries is three times higher than from the Eastern EU countries. The value of Pearson correlation coefficient (0.93) indicated that the correlation of the number of notifications between these groups of countries is very high. The value of the Wald statistics and probability, calculated within the Poisson regression indicated that estimated parameters: notifications from the Western or Eastern EU countries (according to the adopted model) are statistically significant. However, on the basis of estimation of these parameters it can be concluded that increasing of the number of notifications from the Eastern EU countries causes a much larger increase in the number of notifications from the Western EU countries, leading to even greater disparities in the number of notifications. Therefore the European Commission should take action (including legal entities) in order to develop conformity assessment related to the new approach in the Eastern EU countries.