In accordance with the General Product Safety Directive 2001/95/EC (GPSD) and Regulation 765/2008, in December 2016 the European Commission validated 232 notifications on dangerous products and transmitted them to the Member States (EU Member States and EEA-EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) based on the statistics from Week 48-Week 51.
1. Notifying
country
During the
month of December, 24 EU Member States, Iceland and Norway sent notifications
on dangerous products through the RAPEX system.
The five most frequently notifying countries (Hungary, Germany, France, Bulgaria and Spain) accounted for 54% of the notifications:
2. Product
category
The
notifications validated in December covered 22 categories of products.
The five most frequently notified product categories (toys, clothing, textiles and fashion items, motor vehicles, childcare articles and children’s equipment) accounted for 67% of all notifications:
3. Type of
risk
The
notifications validated in December covered 15 different types of risk.
The five most frequently notified risk categories (injuries, chemical, electrical shock, choking and fire) accounted for 79% of all notifications:
4. Country of
origin
From the
dangerous products notified, more than a half originated from China. (133
notifications, 57%)
In the month of December, 141 notifications (61%) were of compulsory preventive and restrictive measures ordered by national authorities (‘compulsory measures’). In 79 other notifications (34%), economic operators took preventive and restrictive measures on a ‘voluntary’ basis (‘voluntary measures’), i.e. they complied with their legal obligations without the formal intervention of a national authority.
It is very frequent that there is more than one measure adopted in relation to a notified product. That is, it is regularly the case, that when the authorities ordered a sales ban they have also ordered a withdrawal from the market.
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