# 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 3.1.1: Notifications

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

The Authorities of the Member States are required to submit a notification to the RAPEX system in the following cases:
(a) where all the RAPEX notification criteria laid down in Article 12 of the GPSD are met, a Member State prepares and submits to the Commission a RAPEX notification classified in the RAPEX application as an ‘Article 12 notification’.
(b) where all the RAPEX notification criteria are met and, in addition, a product poses a life-threatening risk and/or there have been fatal accidents, and in other cases where a RAPEX notification requires emergency action by all Member States, the notifying Member State prepares and submits to the Commission a RAPEX notification classified in the RAPEX application as a ‘Notification requiring emergency action’.
(c) where all RAPEX notification criteria laid down in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 are met, a Member State prepares and submits to the Commission a RAPEX notification classified in the RAPEX application as an ‘Article 22 notification’.
Where all notification criteria laid own in Article 11 of the GPSD are met, a Member State prepares and submits to the Commission a notification, which, when notified in RAPEX is classified as an ‘Article 11 notification’.
Moreover, Member States are encouraged to submit a notification where the criteria laid down in Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 are met.
Following the abovementioned reasoning in Part II Chapter 2, Member States are encouraged to prepare and submit, either directly or indirectly, to the Commission a notification classified in RAPEX as an ‘Article 23 notification’ when the criteria laid down in the same article are met.
Before sending a notification to the Commission, the RAPEX Contact Point (see Part II, Chapter 5.1) of the notifying Member State checks that all notification criteria are met.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/417/annex/division/1/part/II/division/3/division/3.1/division/3.1.1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-417/annex/division-1/part-II/division-3/division-3.1/division-3.1.1
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