Hazardous Products Act [ An Act to prohibit the advertising, sale and importation of hazardous products ]

An Act to amend the Hazardous Products Act and Canada Labour Code, to enact the Hazardous Materials Information Review Act and to amend other Acts in Relation thereto

An Act to amend the Hazardous Products Act (definition of child)

dangerous substance [ dangerous product | dangerous goods(GEMET) | dangerous goods(UNBIS) | harmful products(UNBIS) ]

Community Rapid Information System | Community system for the rapid exchange of information on dangers arising from the use of consumer products | RAPEX alert system | Rapid Alert System for non-food dangerous products | RAPEX [Abbr.]

Dangerous Dogs Act

Federal Act of 15 December 2000 on Protection against Dangerous Substances and Preparations | Chemicals Act [ ChemA ]

hazardous chemical storage room

Public health and safety in the workplace, protection of consumers, protection of the environment and other public interests may be undermined due to some traders who do not comply with the law and place on the market dangerous products.

For the purpose of RAPEX, the term ‘withdrawal’ is used exclusively for measures aimed at preventing the distribution, display and offer of a dangerous product to consumers, while the term ‘recall’ is used only for measures aimed at achieving the return of a dangerous product that has already been made available to consumers by a producer or distributor.

It entitles the authorities to ban any dangerous product with immediate effect or, for the period needed for the various safety evaluations, checks and controls, to ban temporarily a product that could be dangerous.

18. Stresses that the safety of imported products should also be a priority within the TEC; takes the view that people will only have confidence in an open trading environment if their health and safety is protected; calls on the US Consumer Product Safety Commission to make use of its greater freedom to share case-specific information, but proposes that the TEC work on a binding cooperation instrument which would structure and facilitate the sharing of information on product safety and the development of a common programme of cooperative actions; calls on the Commission and the Council to strengthen cooperation between EU and US cust ...[+++]oms and market surveillance authorities, in order to ensure that controls at external borders are able to prevent dangerous products, in particular dangerous toys, from reaching consumers, but without unnecessary bureaucratic burdens; calls on the Member States and the US to ensure strict enforcement of product, and particularly toy, safety laws and to ensure stronger national inspections; underlines the need for close EU-US cooperation to ensure that China and other third countries raise their production standards to meet EU/US safety requirements, in particular in relation to toys, and to convince these countries that product safety must be integrated in the production and distribution process;