Guidelines published for dangerous product notification

Directive 2001/95/CE on general product safety, including PPDs, glasses, goggles and frames, aims at guaranteeing the safety of consumer goods available on the EU market. The Directive obliges producers and distributors to provide the competent authorities with information about potentially dangerous products and the measures that have been taken.

For this purpose, the European Commission has compiled a guide, which provides simple and clear criteria aimed at facilitating the implementation of these obligations by producers and distributors, and a formula for communicating with the authorities, providing the particular circumstances in which this is not required.

The scope of the notification procedure is twofold: checks can be carried out to ensure that companies have taken the appropriate steps regarding the risks that may be involved in placing dangerous products on the market; it allows the authorities to carry out other checks on similar products on the market.

A list of the competent authorities, divided per Member States of the European Union, to be contacted in the event that a product is ascertained or presumed to be dangerous, was also published with the guide.

(Source: Certottica)