13. Encourages the Commission to continue to strongly support consumers' rights in relation to product safety by ensuring the integrity of the CE marking and improving market surveillance at all appropriate national levels, using the RAPEX (Rapid Alert System for non-food consumer products), through the sharing of best practice solutions for market surveillance among Member States; calls on the Commission to work with Member States to ensure that existing legislation is properly implemented and fully enforced by the Member States including by assessing the possibility of reviewing Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of t ...[+++]he Council of 3 December 2001 on general product safety ("the General Product Safety Directive"); recalls that the CE marking can be wrongly interpreted as a general indication of third-party testing or a mark of origin, but also that the Commission has been requested to present an in-depth analysis in the field of consumer safety markings, if necessary followed by legislative proposals;

37. Recognises that poor quality science is both unethical and a waste of resources and that the EU should require that all new, revised and existing human and environmental safety tests be fully validated in accordance with modern standards before such tests are required, recommended or endorsed under Community legislation or strategies;

41. Recognises that poor-quality science is both unethical and a waste of resources, and that the EU should require that all new, revised and existing human/environmental safety tests be fully validated according to modern standards before such tests are required, recommended or endorsed under EU legislation or Community Strategies;

35. Recognises that poor quality science is both unethical and a waste of resources and that the EU should require that all new, revised and existing human and environmental safety tests be fully validated in accordance with modern standards before such tests are required, recommended or endorsed under Community legislation or strategies;

However, these chemicals will continue to be made available to professional users (e.g. specialised industry) who are able to guarantee their safe handling.

Following an agreement between the European Commission and the government of Bulgaria, Unit 1 of Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant was shut down for safety tests on 15 May 1996.