Harmonized European Standard Methods for Toy Safety

GENEVA - July 1, 2013 - PRLog -- The new version is harmonized under the Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC by publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).

Toy Safety Standards to Ensure Child Safety

On 28 May 2013, Commission Communication 2013C 149/02 was published in the OJEU (1). This publication by the EU commission makes the standard EN 71-4:2013 ‘Experimental sets for chemistry and related activities’ a harmonized standard. This means that compliance with the standard gives presumption of compliance with the toy directive. It is the first chemical standard to be harmonized under Directive 2009/48/EC. Normally, EU toy standards are published twice:

- By the standards organization CEN which makes it an agreed and accepted standard. In the SafeGuards 83/13 (2) bulletin, SGS informed on the publication by CEN and the changes to the standard.
- By the EU commission in the OJEU by legally accepting the standard under the toy safety Directive 2009/48/EC.

Highlights of the harmonized standards under the Union harmonization legislation are summarized in Table 1(http://newsletter.sgs.com/eNewsletterPro/uploadedimages/0... the latest SGS SafeGuards bulletin.

About SGS Toy Safety Services

SGS offers a wide range of services to ensure that your products comply with the EU Toy Safety Directive (http://www.sgs.com/en/Consumer-Goods-Retail/Toys-and-Juve...). The company offers training, safety or risk assessment, technical documentation check, labelling review, testing according to harmonized standards, SVHC screening, inspections and audits. With the largest global network of toy experts and testing facilities around the world - around 20 toy labs worldwide including five EU Notified Bodies (France, UK, Germany, Netherlands and Turkey), SGS is the partner to trust.

Please do not hesitate to contact SGS for further information.

References

(1) SGS SafeGuardsNo. 83/13 (May 2013) – European Toy Safety: New method for chemistry and related activity sets published (http://newsletter.sgs.com/eNewsletterPro/uploadedimages/0...)
(2) Communication 2013/C 149/02, 2013, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2013:149:0091:0092:EN:PDF

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