# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/417 of 8 November 2018 laying down guidelines for the management of the European Union Rapid Information System ‘RAPEX’ established under Article 12 of Directive 2001/95/EC on general product safety and its notification system (notified under document C(2018) 7334), Division 4.1: Types of measures

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Preventive and restrictive measures can be taken in relation to products posing a risk either on the initiative of the economic operator who placed and/or distributed it on the market (‘voluntary measures’), or as ordered by an authority of a Member State competent to monitor the compliance of products with the safety requirements (‘compulsory measures’).
For the purpose of these Guidelines, the compulsory measures and voluntary measures are defined as follows:
(a) Compulsory measures measures adopted or decided to be adopted by Member State authorities, often in the form of an administrative decision, which oblige an economic operator to take preventive, corrective or restrictive action in relation to a specific product that they made available on the market.
(b) Voluntary measures (i) preventive and restrictive measures adopted on a voluntary basis by an economic operator, i.e. without any intervention of an authority of a Member State;
(ii) recommendations and agreements with economic operators in their respective activities concluded by Member State authorities; this includes agreements which are not in written form and result in preventive or restrictive action taken by economic operators in their respective activities in relation to products posing a serious risk that they made available on the market.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/417/annex/division/1/part/I/division/4/division/4.1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-417/annex/division-1/part-I/division-4/division-4.1
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