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| 1. Parliament backs stricter toy safety rules | December 18, 2008 |
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Rules will be tightened on everything from the metals used to noise levels.
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of new rules to make children's... | |
| 2. Business in brief | November 20, 2008 |
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| 3. Kuneva: safety is key to maintain public support for open markets | November 13, 2008 |
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EU is set to hold a trilateral meeting with China and the US in an effort to forestall repeat of toy recalls. Meglena Kuneva, the European commissioner for consumer... | |
| 4. European Parliament backs stricter rules on toys | November 6, 2008 |
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Assembly wants manufacturers to provide risk dossier and adds to the list of unwanted components.
The European Parliament's internal market committee has backed plans... | |
| 5. Consumer chief to warn toy giants | April 3, 2008 |
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Commissioner says companies including Mattel, Hornby and Lego must do more to keep unsafe toys off European Union shelves. More efforts are needed to stem the flow of unsafe... |
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| 6. Consumers attack toys overhaul | January 10, 2008 |
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Enterprise and Industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen is to give the manufacturing industry an easy ride in a forthcoming overhaul of key legislation intended to... | |
| 7. Toys safety-checks boost | October 25, 2007 |
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Meglena Kuneva, the European commissioner for consumer protection, is to announce intensified checks on toys by national customs authorities in the run-up to Christmas. The... | |
| 8. Product safety | October 11, 2007 |
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As chair of the European Parliamentary committee responsible for product and for toy safety, Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), I fully support the need for... | |
| 9. Kuneva seeks EU-US product-safety alliance | September 27, 2007 |
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The European Commission is pressing the US administration to strengthen its consumer protection authority to permit an exchange of information across the Atlantic on product... | |
| 10. Kuneva seeks allies for safety crusade | September 20, 2007 |
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Meglena Kuneva, the European commissioner for consumer protection, has urged national governments to back her product safety campaign. In a letter sent to industry ministers... | |
| 11. Danger goods flood into EU | April 12, 2007 |
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Almost a thousand dangerous products, many made in China, had to be taken off the EU market last year to remove risks of burns, poisoning, electric shocks and suffocation. A... | |
| 12. Carmakers cruise ahead with plans to reduce risk of injury | January 17, 2002 |
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NEARLY 9,000 pedestrians and cyclists are killed every year on Europe's roads after being hit by vehicles. A further 200,000 are injured. In a bid to reduce the carnage, car... | |
| 13. Injuries from toys in food prompt study by Parliament | November 15, 2001 |
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THE European Parliament has ordered a study into injuries caused by toys in foods such as chocolate eggs. The assembly's scientific and technological options assessment... | |
| 14. Product safety laws confusing, says industry | June 7, 2001 |
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MANUFACTURERS say they are facing business uncertainty and potentially large bills as a result of the "continuous confusion" caused by the European Commission's handling of... | |
| 15. Cap gun firms say restrictions on noise will blow them away | April 5, 2001 |
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EU GOVERNMENTS are looking to take the bang out of toy guns - but they may have to face a legal shootout with industry first. Austria, Germany and Sweden are leading a group... | |
| 16. Consumer accident monitoring system survives threat of termination | December 11, 1997 |
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THE EU's only system for monitoring the Union's annual 20 million leisure and home accidents has won a 12-month reprieve. The European Home and Leisure Accidents... | |
| 17. Call for global game rules in ‘toy town' | May 8, 1997 |
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NAME one other industry where European manufacturers are calling for more Chinese imports. Europe's toymakers were unhappy when the European Commission introduced quotas... | |
| 18. Legal action on toy advert ban delayed | March 28, 1996 |
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GREECE is unlikely to face court action in the near future over its allegedly illegal ban on television advertisements for toys. The threat has receded following a decision... | |
