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Subject: Deprivatising Verispect Activities
Dear all,
During summer 2015 the Dutch parliament and senate both agreed upon the required amendment in legislation thus allowing the enforcement activities of both entities to be merging within the Telecom Agency. On the 15th of December the amendment has been published in the Dutch Official Journal, the so called �Staatscourant�. After the first of January 2016 the actual Verispect personnel will then become employed as civil servants at Agentschap Telecom.
In principle there should not be any consequences for the outside world. Starting the first of January all the Verispect activities will be continued in the same way by the same persons as they have been done up to today at Agentschap Telcom.
After the first of January 2016, I can be reached through the following channels:
Email
[email protected]
Mobile phone +31 6 51 52 71 39.
Landed phone +31 33 460 8794
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a healthy, prosperous and happy New year 2016!
Kind regards,
Hermine van Rij
Verispect BV
Mevrouw Hermine (B.W.) van Rij
Strategy and Quality
D +31 15 2691652
T +31 15 2691602
DISCLAIMER
Verispect bv Thijsseweg 11 Postbus 654 2600 AR Delft Telefoon (015) 269 1602 Website: www.verispect.nl Kamer van Koophandel Haaglanden nr. 27228700 Datum 1 7 december 201 5 Uw kenmerk - Ons kenmerk V-DI/ CJ/ 15. 47 6 Onderwerp Deprivatising Verispect Activities Dear Verispect contact, Up till today Verispect is the body contracted by the Dutch government for its main activities being the execution of inspections and surveillance within the scope of the enforcement of the Dutch Metrology law and the Hallmarking law. Starting the first of January 2016 Verispect will cease to exist as inspection and surveillance body and all its tasks and staff will be transferred to the Dutch governmental Agency called “Agentschap Telecom” including the tasks concerning the harmonisation of international legal metrology. While you are registered as one of our contacts you receive this letter to inform you about possible implications for your organisation, if any. Deprivatising Verispect activities Since 2013 several of the tasks which have been executed by Verispect on assignment of the Dutch government have moved to some different governmental organisations. This reduction of the number of governmental contacts required a decrease in the Verispect staff resulting in a severe long term viability challenge. The actual Dutch government desires concentrating the organization of the legislative inspection and surveillance activities within the scope of legal enforcement close to the national administration. Considering this approach the Minister of Economic affairs in the beginning 2015 decided to de-privatise the present Verispect activities and to insert these into the executable tasks of the Ministry. A feasibility study has shown that these present Verispect tasks may fit well within the scope of activities of the Telecom Agency. During summer 2015 the Dutch parliament and senate both agreed upon the required amendment in legislation thus allowing the enforcement activities of both entities to be merging within the Telecom Agency. On the 15th of December the amendment has been published in the Dutch Official Journal, the so called “Staatscourant”. Per the first of January2016 the actual Verispect personnel will then become employed as civil servants at Agentschap Telecom. What may be the impact for you? In principle there should not be any consequences for the outside world. Starting the first of January all the Verispect activities will be continued in the same way by the same persons as they have been done up to today within a new department, called “Metrology en Waarborg” which has especially been established for these new activities within the Agency. This new department will be located at the Amersfoort office of The Agency where most of the other Agency’s inspections are settled or coordinated as well. Your contacts will inform you about their new email addresses and their direct landline numbers. Anyhow you may approach contacts using the general contact information as presented on the backside of this letter. I hope that this information is adequate and sufficiently clear to you and I expect that our staff will be able to continue the pleasant and fruitful cooperation within their new department of the Telecom Agency as has been within Verispect with regard to all the applicable actual and future activities. Best regards, C. Jansen Director a.i. Contact information Agentschap Telecom Agentschap Telecom Department “Metrologie en Waarborg” (Metrology and Hallmarking) Office Amersfoort Piet Mondriaanlaan 54 3812 GV Amersfoort T +31(0)33 4600800 Postal address P.O. box 45 9700 AL Groningen T +31(0)50 587 74 44 E
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