93/583/EEC: Commission Decision of 28 July 1993 establishing the list of products provided for in Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 339/93

COMMISSION DECISION of 28 July 1993 establishing the list of products provided for in Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 339/93
(93/583/EEC)THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 339/93 of 8 February 1993 on checks for conformity with the rules on product safety, and in particular Article 8 thereof (1),
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 339/93 lays down that the Commission will draw up a list of the products more particularly covered by the second indent of Article 2, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 9;
Whereas this list must be drawn up and updated on the basis of experience and/or the rules on product safety and wihtin the scope of Community rules;
Whereas it has emerged from the preparatory work relating to that Regulation and from the work on abolishing controls at internal frontiers that Member States pay particular attention to toys, medicinal products and foodstuffs in the context of checks  for conformity with the rules on product safety;
Whereas toys constitute products aimed at a particularly vulnerable category of consumers who, given the normal behaviour of children, do not display the 'average caution' shown by adult consumers;
Whereas medicinal products and foodstuffs constitute the categories of products whose consumption influences the health of their users most directly;
Whereas it is necessary, therefore, to include toys, medicional products and foodstuffs in the list of products more particularly covered by the second indent of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 339/93;
Whereas the measures provided for by this Decision comply with the opinion of the committee referred to in Article 9 of the said Regulation,