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  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 21 April 2005 on the safety requirements to be met by the European standards for floating leisure articles for use on or in the water pursuant to Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(2005) 1209) (Text with EEA relevance) (2005/323/EC)",
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  "text": "Commission Decision\nof 21 April 2005\non the safety requirements to be met by the European standards for floating leisure articles for use on or in the water pursuant to Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council\n(notified under document number C(2005) 1209)\n(Text with EEA relevance)\n(2005/323/EC)\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 December 2001 on general product safety, and in particular Article 4(1)(a),\nWhereas:\n(1)\nDirective 2001/95/EC lays down an obligation for producers to place only safe products on the market.\n(2)\nAccording to that Directive a product is to be presumed safe as far as the risks and risk categories covered by relevant national standards are concerned when it conforms to voluntary national standards transposing European standards.\n(3)\nAccording to Directive 2001/95/EC, European standards should be established by European standardisation bodies. Such standards should ensure that products satisfy the general safety requirement of the Directive.\n(4)\nThe Member States and the Commission, in close cooperation with the European standardisation bodies and after consultation of stakeholders, have identified floating leisure articles for use on or in the water as a group of products for which European standards should be drawn up on the basis of a mandate to be given by the Commission pursuant to Directive 2001/95/EC. The floating leisure articles identified exclude those floating articles covered by Council Directive 88/378/EEC concerning the safety of toys, by Council Directive 89/686/EEC relating to personal protective equipment and by Directive 94/25/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to recreational craft.\n(5)\nSafety requirements for those products should be drawn up in the light of those consultations and discussions with Member States authorities.\n(6)\nThe measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee set up under Directive 2001/95/EC,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 11, 15.1.2002, p. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 187, 16.7.1988, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 93/68/EEC (OJ L 220, 30.8.1993, p. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 399, 30.12.1989, p. 18. Directive as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ L 164, 30.6.1994, p. 15. Directive as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003."
    }
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