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Test Method / Standard European Directive / Regulation Category

Remarks

EN343

89 / 689 / EEC Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Directive

Safety Clothing

These garments are intended to protect against weather conditions with combinations of precipitation, rain, fog, humidity and wind at temperatures down to +5°C.

EN 71

2009 / 48 /EC Toy Safety Directive

Toys & Children’s Products

Safety of Toys, provides safety requirements for children’s toys

EN 62115

2009 / 48 /EC Toy Safety Directive

Toys & Children’s Products – Electrical / Electronics

Safety on Electrical Toys - deals with the safety of toys that have at least one function dependent on electricity

DIN 72553

2001 / 95/ EC General Product Safety Directive

Booster Cables / Battery Booster Cable

Battery jumper cable for road vehicles with combustion engines; dimensions, requirements, test

EN 1860-1

2001 / 95 / EC General Product Safety Directive

Barbecue Grills

Appliances, solid fuels and firelighters for barbecuing: part 1 barbecues burning solid fuels, Under the General Product Safety Directive, it stipulates that all consumer products placed on the European market are safe Personal Eye Protection – Sunglasses & Sun glare filters for general use, Provides basic safety requirements that PPE must satisfy to ensure health protection and safety of users. High Visibility accessories for non- professional use. Provides basic safety requirements that PPE must satisfy to ensure health protection and safety of user’s presence visually when illuminated by vehicle headlight in dark roads

EN-ISO 12312-1:2013

89 / 689 / EEC Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Directive

Sunglasses

EN 13356

89 / 689 / EEC Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Directive

Visibility accessories for non- professional use

EN 60825-1

2006 / 95 / EC Low Voltage Directive

Laser Pointers

Safety of laser Products, requires that electrical equipment, within certain voltage limits, provides a high level of protection for the public

Rules & Regulations

ISO 9994

2001 / 95/ EC General Product Safety Directive

Cigarette Lighters

ISO9999 Safety requirement for Cigarette Lighters. Under the General Product Safety Directive, it stipulates that all consumer products placed on the European market are safe ISO22702 Safety requirement for Utility lighters. Under the General Product Safety Directive, it stipulates that all consumer products placed on the European market are safe

ISO 22702

2001 / 95/ EC General Product Safety Directive

Utility Lighters

EN 15493

2001 / 95/ EC General Product Safety Directive

Candles

Candle specification for fire safety. Under the General Product Safety Directive, it stipulates that all consumer products placed on the European market are safe

ANTIMICROBIAL PRESERVATIVE EFFECTIVENESS

Cosmetics Regulation EC 1223/2009 All consumer products (i.e., cosmetic, toys & children products & household products ) made of substances and mixtures

To demonstrates the effectiveness of a substance—when used as a preservative or additive— to stop the growth of such pathogenic organisms as E. coli, Aspergillus niger, Candida albicans, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus.

MICROBIAL ENUMERATION

Ensures that the product is free from bacterial / fungal contaminants

TOXICOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT

The assessment of the toxicological potential is the most important step in the hazard evaluation of a cosmetics , toys & children products ingredient and consists in a series of distinct toxicity studies. Done to ensure a consumer product is safe chemically that can cause adverse health effects by acute and chronic toxicity, irritation and sensitization under normal and reasonably foreseeable conditions of use.

93-42-EEC MEDICAL DEVICES DIRECTIVE

93 / 42 / EEC Medical Devices Directive

First Aid Kits

Provides regulatory framework for Medical Devices Vigilance System

EMC

2004 / 108 / EC Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive (after Q1 2016 New EMC Directive 2014/30/EU) 2009/125/EC Ecodesign Directive relating to Energy Related Products (ErP)

Electrical / Electronics

Provides Immunity & emission limits for electrical / electronic products marketed in European Countries

ErP

Electrical / Electronics

To reduce the environmental impact of products across the life cycle, with a particular focus on energy.

R & TTE

1999/5/EC R&TTE Directive

Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment

The concerns on the essential requirement on the protection of the health and the safety of the user and any other person, including the objectives with respect to safety requirements and electromagnetic compatibility This Regulation applies to certain advance-warning devices intended to be on board vehicles and to be placed on the carriageway in order to signal, by day and at night, the presence of a halted vehicle.

ECE 27

Vehicle Regulation

Advance Warning Triangle

FOOD CONTACT

Food Contact materials / articles

Provides regulatory framework for testing food contact materials

1935 / 2004 / EC, materials and articles intended to come into contact with food 2012 / 19 / EU Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment Directive

WEEE

Electrical / Electronics

Requires collection of used E&E equipment

BATTERY DIRECTIVE

2006/66/EC Battery Directive

Batteries

Defines acceptable limit for mercury, cadmium & lead in batteries

LVD

Electrical / Electronics

Requires that electrical equipment, with in certain voltage limits, provides a high level of protection for the public

2006 / 95 /EC Low Voltage Directive (after Q1 2016 replaced by 2014/35/ EU)

E-MARK

Car electrical / electronic Sub- assemblies

Products intended for use in vehicles are required to obtain formal type approval products prior to placing them on the market. All such products are required to carry an e-mark and to comply with European vehicle legislation in order to be legally fitted inside a vehicle.

95 / 54 / EC Automotive Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive

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