16-20 June 2014 – Every 2 years, policy makers, industry, consumer organisations and many others from across the world gather to discuss how to cooperate in order to reinforce product safety. The aim of the International Product Safety Week is to promote the safety of consumer products and int (...)
May 13 2014 – The report provides a picture of where we stand and what we have learned so far about maternity and paternity rights across the world. It offers a rich international comparative analysis of law and practice relating to maternity protection at work in 185 countries and territories (...)
Apr 15 2014 – To prevent deaths and injuries to infants and children, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has approved a new federal mandatory standard intended to improve the safety of soft infant and toddler carriers. The Commission voted unanimously in favor of the standard ( (...)
The new ‘Blue Guide’ builds on the on the content of the Guide to the implementation of directives based on the New Approach and the Global Approach (the “Blue Guide”) published back in 2000, but reflects the modernisation brought to the legal framework in the past decade. This new vers (...)
Apr 15 2014 – Parliament votes Wednesday on whether “made in” labels should be mandatory for goods sold on the EU market. It will also propose harsher penalties for firms selling potentially dangerous products. The proposals are included in two new draft laws beefing up product saf (...)
March 14 2014 – A revamped “Chemicals in our life” web section explains how chemicals can be used safely in our daily life both at home and at work. It also gives tips on how consumers can find out more about the chemicals that they use. As defined in the REACH Regulation, consumer (...)
The EU Consumer Programme 2014-2020 and the New Agenda for European Consumer Policy have established the financial and policy framework for improving consumer protection and rights in the Single Market. Following the IMCO request, the Commission started to develop a Consumer Markets Scoreboard to h (...)
Following the General Product Safety Directive, the European Commission and EFTA founded PROSAFE to undertake joint Market Surveillance actions and with the aim of coordinating a common approach on market control. ENPC is an external stakeholder and we are closely following the project implementati (...)
The Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act, section 104 of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA), requires the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (Commission or CPSC) to promulgate consumer product safety standards for durable infant or toddler product (...)
27 Feb 2014 The European Commission is implementing the Directive 2014/37/EU (amending Council Directive 91/671/EEC) relating to the compulsory use of safety belts and child restraint system in vehicles. The standardised requirements of Regulation 129 constitute alternative enhanced requirements in (...)