Product Safety (Regulation)
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Product Safety (Regulation)

Published on 01.22.2014

The European Commission has proposed a "Product Safety and Market Surveillance Package" containing, in particular, a proposal for a Regulation on consumer product safety and a proposal for a Regulation on the regulatory market surveillance of products. The proposal for a Regulation on product safety aims to simplify the different rules on consumer product safety as well as ensuring that consumer products are safe.

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The simplification of legislation on consumer product safety does increase legal certainty. However, the mandatory indication of the country of origin is not reasonable for the traceability of a product.

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Consumer Product Safety COM(2013) 78 (publ. 02.26.2014) PDF 105 KB Download
Consumer Product Safety COM(2013) 78