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Product and Service Safety Act.

País/Territorio
Estonia
Tipo de documento
Legislación
Fecha
2004 (2007)
Fuente
FAO, FAOLEX
Materia
Alimentación y nutrición
Palabra clave
Control de calidad de los alimentos/inocuidad de los alimentos Protección del consumidor Comercio interior
Área geográphica
Europa, Europa y Central Asia, Países de la Unión Europea, Europa Septentrional
Entry into force notes
This Act enters into force on 1 May 2004.
Resumen

The purpose of this Act is to ensure that products placed on the market and services provided are safe. This Act provides for the requirements for ensuring product and service safety and provides the basis for market supervision. For the purposes of this Act, “product” means any movable which is intended for consumers or which consumers may use in a presumably reasonable manner even if not intended for them, as well as any product that is made available to consumers in the context of providing a service, that is supplied or made available, whether for consideration or not,, in the course of a commercial or professional activity, and regardless of whether the product is new, used or reconditioned. “Dangerous products which appear to be other than they are” are products which, although not foodstuffs, possess a size or volume, odour, colour, appearance, form, packaging, labelling, such that it is likely that consumers, especially children, will confuse them with foodstuffs and in consequence place them in their mouths, or suck or ingest them, which might be dangerous and cause physical harm. It is prohibited to produce, place on the market, import or export the aforesaid products. A product shall be deemed to be safe when, in the absence of specific European Community provisions governing the safety of the product or product category in question, the product conforms to the health protection and safety requirements of the Member State of the European Union State in whose territory the product is marketed, such requirements being drawn up in conformity with the Treaty establishing the European Community. Producers may place on the market only products which are safe, and service providers may offer and provide services which are safe. Producers and service providers shall provide consumers with the relevant information to enable them to assess the risks inherent in a product throughout the normal or reasonably foreseeable period of its use, where such risks are not immediately obvious without adequate warnings, and to take precautions against those risks.

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