To ensure that toys comply with the essential safety requirements, it is necessary to lay down appropriate conformity assessment procedures to be followed by the manufacturer. Internal production control based on the manufacturer’s own responsibility for the conformity assessment is adequate where it has followed the harmonised standards the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union or common specifications covering all the particular safety requirements for the toy. In cases where such harmonised standards or common specifications do not exist, the toy should be submitted to third-party verification, in this case EU-type examination. The same should apply if one or more such standards have been published with a restriction in the Official Journal of the European Union, or if the manufacturer has not followed such standards or specifications completely, or has followed them only in part. The manufacturer should submit the toy to EU-type examination in cases where it considers that the nature, design, construction or purpose of the toy necessitates third-party verification.
Text as published in the Official Journal, reproduced verbatim (including any typographical quirks of the source). For the authentic version, see EUR-Lex.
