Essential safety requirements for toys should ensure protection for users and other persons from all relevant health and safety hazards posed by toys. Particular safety requirements should cover the physical and mechanical properties, flammability, chemical properties, electrical properties, hygiene and radioactivity of toys in order to ensure that the safety of children is adequately protected against those specific hazards. Since it is possible that toys which present hazards that are not covered by a particular safety requirement might exist or be developed, it is necessary to maintain a general safety requirement to ensure protection of children in respect of such toys. The safety of toys should be determined by reference to the intended use, while also taking into account the foreseeable use, and bearing in mind the behaviour of children, who do not generally show the same degree of care as the average adult user. Together, the general safety requirement and the particular safety requirements should form the essential safety requirements for toys. The obligation for economic operators to comply with those essential safety requirements does not affect their obligations to comply with other Union law applicable to toys which addresses other aspects such as cybersecurity, environmental protection, the making available of hazardous substances and mixtures, or artificial intelligence.
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