Market surveillance - Correct application of CE marking The manufacturer or importer who puts the product on the market is responsible for his product. As such, an unsafe product should not be on the market. But unfortunately toys not meeting the essential safety requirements, with CE marking, do appear on the market. These toys create an unwanted negative image of the toys industry. Improved market surveillance by the authorities should prevent this situation.
Standards certainly have the potential to raise the overall quality of toys.
This goes hand in hand with business and manufacturing practice as well as the development of new materials and techniques. It was declared that safety of toys and child safety of products in general had improved over the last 20 years. Keeping standards up to date The development of a future generation of standards is an ideal opportunity to introduce new concepts. Whereas safety has always been one of the main arguments to update the documents, the environmental issues surrounding products and their manufacturing are receiving more attention. It was also indicated that there should be risk assessment related to toys.