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About this event:
Consumers expect products to be safe: no matter what they buy, whether they do so online or offline, and whatever the price.

The EU has adopted several laws that require producers to only place safe products on its market. An important one is the General Product Safety Directive – GPSD for short. It sets requirements for products that do not benefit from sector-specific safety laws.

And yet dangerous and other non-compliant products – from toxic jewellery to hackable security cameras – keep popping up on the European market. Our event will focus on one source of the problem: outdated legislation. The GPSD dates back to 2001: It simply does not capture today’s reality where we shop online and are able to buy a wide variety of ‘smart’ products.

In policy terms, there are serious legal loopholes and a lack of enforcement of existing rules to keep consumers safe. The European Commission’s new consumer strategy and a recent European Parliament report underline this perspective.

MEP Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques and BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation, discussed the upcoming review of the EU’s main product safety law – a process expected to start in 2021.

This event was livestreamed on 25 February 2021 at 10:00

Speakers:
Jack Parrock moderated the debate.

Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, Member of the European Parliament
Pinuccia Contino, European Commission (DG Justice)
Johannes Kröhnert, TÜV-Verband (German Association of Technical Inspection Agencies)
Stephen Russell, ANEC – The consumer voice in standardisation
Maarten De Backer, Test Aankoop/Test Achats (Belgian consumer organisation)
Monique Goyens, BEUC
Ilya Bruggeman, Eurocommerce
Sara Gouveia, Portuguese Permanent Representation to the European Union