Article 6 — Warnings

1. Where necessary to ensure their safe use, toys shall bear warnings specifying appropriate user limitations. The user limitations shall include at least the minimum age of the user and, where appropriate, the required abilities of the user, the maximum weight or minimum weight of the user and the need to ensure that the toy is used only under adult supervision. 2. The categories of toys listed in Annex III shall bear warnings in accordance with the rules for each category set out in that Annex. Toys shall not bear one or more of the warnings set out in Annex III where such warnings conflict with the intended use or reasonably foreseeable use of the toy, as determined by virtue of its function, dimensions and characteristics. 3. The manufacturer shall mark warnings in a clearly visible, easily legible and understandable and accurate manner on the toy, on an affixed label or on the packaging and, if appropriate, on the instructions for use which accompany the toy. Toys which are sold without packaging shall have appropriate warnings affixed to them if the surface of the toy allows. If this is not possible, the warnings shall be placed on the label. Warnings shall comply with the visibility and legibility criteria set out in Annex III. Warnings as set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be clearly visible to the consumer before purchase, including in cases where the purchase is made through distance sales. 4. Labels and instructions for use shall draw the attention of children or their supervisors to the inherent hazards and risks to the health and safety of children, considering the age group of children for which the toys are intended, and to the ways of avoiding such hazards and risks.