
This lecture explains EU product legislation and CE marking requirements, market surveillance, recalls, and penalties for non-conformity, including toy safety directives and examples of fines.
Explore EU product legislation, including regulations and directives, product safety requirements, and product liability, with a regulation on registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction of chemicals binding across the EU.
The European Commission issues decisions introducing emergency measures and communitywide controls on specified risk materials from cattle, sheep, and goats in response to crises such as mad cow disease.
Explore how legislative opinions function as non-binding statements issued by European institutions, reflecting regional or economic and social viewpoints on issues like privacy, data protection, and drone regulation.
Expands responsibilities across manufacturers, authorized representatives, distributors, and importers, emphasizing post-market obligations and enforcement throughout the product lifecycle under direct applicability of regulation.
Clarify liability across the distribution chain for defective products, including movable goods, electricity, raw materials, and components, with suppliers liable. It applies only to defective products and excludes Coventry.
identify when a modified product in the EU becomes a new product, prompting a case-by-case risk assessment and updated technical documentation to meet essential requirements.
Clarify what 'making available' means under EU product law, covering placing on the market, commercial activity, distribution offers, end use, and traceability on the union market.
Examine how union harmonization acts may overlap or complement each other, requiring product compliance with provisions and risk analysis of intended use before market, aligning with safety directive.
Appoint an authorised representative in the EU to act for the manufacturer, with a written delegation detailing tasks and limits; keep the declaration of conformity and technical documentation.
Explain the distributor's duties under EU product legislation, including marking, declaration of conformity, labeling, language requirements for instructions, and maintaining technical documentation to ensure market conformity.
Identify who qualifies as the end user under EU product legislation, noting it includes professionals and consumers and relates to the intended user cost, while the term is not defined.
Explore additional national provisions and wrap up the section, detailing supply chain obligations, manufacturer rights, and how EU product regulation informs CE marking.
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The European Union is one of the wealthiest market in the world... and one of the most regulated!
Selling a product in this market, whether you are a manufacturer bases within or outside the European Union, an importer o a simple reseller/distributor, implies that you takes responsibilities, wether you like it or not.
This course introduce you to the most important concept of the European product legislation.
After a short introduction on the European Union, it will explain the concept of the free movement of products, the main pillar on which the huge European market relies on.
Then the course will go into details, explaining the product legislation framework, starting with its types of legal acts, and explaining two of the most common directives:
- the General Product Safety Directive
- the Directive on Product Liability
Then we will explain when and how the legislation applies, introducing, among others, the concepts of
- selling techniques and types of products
- making available
- placing on the market
- intended use and misuse
Finally, we will examine in details responsibilities and obligations of the main economic actors:
- Manufacturer (within or outside European Union)
- Authorised Representative
- Importer
- Distributor
- End user (even though not an economic operator strictly speaking)
At the end of the course you will gain a comprehensive knowledge of the European Union legislative framework, and you will have the vocabulary and the autonomy to further deepen your knowledge in a specific field like for instance in the Toys industry, in the Medical Device field, and so on.
Do not lose valuable time and enroll today!