G/TBT/N/EU/98  
 
15 March 2013  
(13-1408)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION 
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
Name and address (including telephon e and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :   
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Consumer 
products 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposal for a 
Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on consumer product safety and 
repealing Council Directive 87/357/EEC and Directive 2001/95/EC (COM(2013)78 final) 
(43 pages, in English, French and Spanish).     
6. Description of content:  This proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and 
of the Council on consumer product safety aims at revising the existing EU rules on the safety of consumer products. Once adopted, the new Regulation will replace Council Directive 87/357/EEC on food-imitating prod ucts and Directive 2001/95/EC on general 
product safety.  
The proposal confirms the key requirement that consumer products made available on the 
EU market must be safe. The proposal states several means which give rise to 
presumption of the safety of a consumer product (e.g. conformity with sector-specific EU 
legislation or compliance with specifically referenced European standards). 
The proposal includes a set of clear obligations for economic operators (manufacturers, 
importers, distributors), including the drawing up of a technical documentation by 
manufacturers, labelling requirements and traceability in the supply chain. This includes the requirement to label the country of origin of the product. 
Moreover, the proposal simplifies the procedures to identify or develop European standards 
in support of the General Product Safety Regulation, aligning it to the new Regulation (EU) 
No 1025/2012 on European standardisation. 
The notified proposal is part of a broader legislative initiative called "Product Safety and 
Market Surveillance Package" which also contains a Proposal for a single Regulation on 
Market Surveillance of products. G/TBT/N/EU/98 
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health and safety  
8. Relevant documents:   Council Directive 87/357/ EEC of 25 June 1987 on the 
approximation of the laws of the Member Stat es concerning products which, appearing to 
be other than they are, endanger the health or safety of consumers (OJ L 192, 11.7.1987, 
p. 49 - 50) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Le xUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31987L0357:en:HTML  
Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 December 2001 
on general product safety (OJ L 11, 15.1.2002, p. 4 - 17)  
"http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ. do?uri=OJ:L:2002:011:0004:0017:EN:PDF " 
"Product Safety and Market Surveillance Package" 
"http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/single-market-goods/internal-market-for-
products/market-surveillance/index_en.htm#h2-1 " 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    1st semester 2014 The proposed date of application is 2015. 
10. Final date for comments:  90 days from date of notification.  
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresse s, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 
E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@e c.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/     
and at 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2013:0078:FIN:EN:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2013:0078:FIN:FR:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2013:0078:FIN:ES:PDF  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2013/tbt/EEC/13_1113_00_e.pdf