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Regulation 11 Requirement to keep available and give information about toys which bear the CE markingF1I1

United Kingdom

(1)

Every manufacturer of toys established in the United Kingdom or, where the manufacturer is not established in the F2European Union, the manufacturer’s authorised representative established in the United Kingdom or, where the manufacturer is established outside the European Union and he has no authorised representative established in the European Union, the person who supplies a toy on the first occasion on which it is supplied in the European Union provided that he is established in the United Kingdom shall keep the following information available for inspection by an enforcement authority or any of its officers in respect of toys supplied in the European Union by such manufacturer, authorised representative or first supplier and bearing the CE marking denoting among other things conformity with the relevant national standards applicable to the toy where those standards relate to all the matters covered by the essential safety requirements applicable to the toy and shall give the information to an enforcement authority or any of its officers on his being required to give such information within a reasonable time—

(a)

a description of the means (such as the use of a test report or technical file) whereby the manufacturer ensures conformity of production with the relevant national standards;

(b)

the addresses of the places of manufacture and storage of the toys; and

(c)

detailed information concerning their design and manufacture.

(2)

Every manufacturer of toys established in the United Kingdom or, where the manufacturer is not established in the European Union, the manufacturer’s authorised representative established in the United Kingdom or, where the manufacturer is established outside the European Union and he has no authorised representative established in the European Union, the person who supplies a toy on the first occasion on which it is supplied in the European Union provided that he is established in the United Kingdom shall keep the following information available for inspection by an enforcement authority or any of its officers in respect of toys supplied in the European Union by such manufacturer, authorised representative or first supplier which are not manufactured, or which are manufactured only partly, in accordance with the relevant national standards applicable to that toy or for which no such standards exist or where the relevant national standards relate only to some of the matters covered by the essential safety requirements applicable to the toy and which bear the CE marking denoting conformity among other things of the toy with the approved model and shall give the information to an enforcement authority or any of its officers on his being required to give such information within a reasonable time—

(a)

a detailed description of manufacturer;

(b)

a description of the means (such as the use of a test report or technical file) whereby the manufacturer ensures conformity with the approved model;

(c)

the addresses of the places of manufacture and storage of the toys;

(d)

copies of the documents which the manufacturer or his authorised representative has submitted to an approved body on an application for an EC type-examination certificate; and

(e)

the EC type-examination certificate or a copy of such a certificate, certified by the approved body which issued it as a true copy.

(3)

If any of the requirements of paragraph (1) or (2) above is not satisfied, an enforcement authority or any of its officers may require such manufacturer, authorised representative or first supplier, as the case may be, as is mentioned in those paragraphs to have a toy in respect of which any such requirement is not satisfied tested within a reasonable period by an approved body at the expense of such manufacturer, authorised representative or first supplier for the purpose of ascertaining whether the relevant national standards and the essential safety requirements are complied with and the manufacturer, authorised representative or first supplier shall comply with any such requirement imposed by an enforcement authority or one of its officers.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Regulations revoked (with savings) (19.8.2011) by The Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1881), regs. 1(2), 2(1) (with reg. 2(2)); and Regulations (as saved) modified (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2011/1881, reg. 2(2)(2A) (as amended by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 15 para. 2(1)(b) (with Sch. 15 para. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))

F2

Words in Regulations substituted (22.4.2011) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), arts. 2, 3-6

Commencement

I1

Reg. 11 in force at 24.2.1995, see reg. 1(1)