13 Amendments of Christel SCHALDEMOSE related to 2021/2040(INI)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the need for toys that are placed on the EU market to comply with the TSD, as well as the relevant EU legislation on chemicals, in particular the REACH Regulation and the RoHS Directive; calls on the Commission to introduce a labelling requirement of chemicals present in toys;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that spreading out requirements across several pieces of legislation, and providing for different limit values, can be burdensome and can in some cases necessitate a duplicateion of the measuring of substances, as in the case of migration and content limit values; calls on the Commission, therefore, to consider consolidating all applicable limits for toys to the strictest possible limit values in one piece of legislation, in order to streamline conformity assessment;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. calls on the Commission to include provisions to take into account children’s combined exposure to chemicals as well as of potential low-dose effects in its revision of the TSD, in line with the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. is concerned that the labelling requirements for specific allergenic fragrances in certain experimental toy sets cannot be easily updated when the lists of allergenic fragrances are amended; calls on the Commission to use the revision of the TSD to also tackle this shortcoming, by making it easier to amend those requirements.
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, which aims to improve market surveillance by strengthening controls by national authorities to ensure that products entering the single market, including toys, are safe and comply with the rules, and; calls on the Member States to implement it fullyswiftly and to equip customs and market surveillance authorities with adequate human, financial and technical resources to prevent the proliferation of unsafe and non-compliant toys in the EU;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Urges the Commission to adopt implementing acts laying down benchmarks and techniques for checks on the basis of common risk analysis on the Union level, in order to ensure a consistent enforcement of Union law, to strengthen the controls on products entering the Union market and to ensure an effective and uniform level of such controls, in line with Article 25 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13 b. Calls on the Commission to adopt implementing acts specifying the procedures for the designation of Union testing facilities, in line with Article 21 of Regulation(EU) 2019/1020;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the adoption of the Single Market Programme and the introduction of a specific objective, with a specific budget line and dedicated resources for market surveillance, which will contribute to support Member States' action in ensuring that only safe and compliant toys enter the EU market;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the guidance of the Commission on Article 4 of Regulation 2019/1020, which clarifies the tasks of economic operators, in particular with regard to products sold online and placed on the EU market from non-EU countries; notes, however, that authorised representatives in Article 5 of the Regulation is not responsible for the product safety nor liable towards consumers; emphasizes that it must always be possible to hold an economic operator in the Union liable for the product safety; stresses that compliance with EU rules by all economic operators is key to ensuring the safety of children and providing a level playing field for companies, and calls on market surveillance and customs authorities to perform robust enforcement actions to stop rogue traders from exploiting the EU market;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the guidance of the Commission on Article 4 of Regulation 2019/1020, which clarifies the tasks of economic operators, in particular with regard to products sold online and placed on the EU market from non-EU countries; stresses that compliance with EU rules by all economic operators is key to ensuring the safety of children and providing a level playing field for companies, and calls on market surveillance and customs authorities to step up their cooperation and perform robust enforcement actions to stop rogue traders from exploiting the EU market;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Stresses that online marketplaces should take additional steps to ensure the safety and compliance of toys sold on their platforms; insists in the strongest terms, in this sense, that it is fundamental to ensure consistency between different instruments such as the Digital Services Act and the future legislative act revising the GPSD when it comes to the responsibility and liability of online marketplaces, under the principle ‘what is illegal offline is illegal online’;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Highlights that the lack of consistent EU-wide statistics on toy-related accidents makes it impossibles have made it difficult to quantitatively assess the level of protection granted by the TSD and to inform the standardization work on toys; believes that a lack ofinsufficient coordination and funding at EU level is a root cause of the absence of consistent data and calls on the Commission to address this in a future revision through theof the Directive, including by establishment ofing a pan-European accident and injury database and exploring how indicators and data such as those gathered from ICSMS, Safety Gate, joint actions and the possibility of establishing a digital product passport could contribute to a higher safety level for toys;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Calls on the Commission to publish the summary of the 2014-2018 report by Member States;