LIST OF CATEGORIES OF PRODUCTS WHICH SHOULD BE USED IN NOTIFICATIONS WHICH
ARE SENT UNDER THE GENERAL PRODUCTS SAFETY DIRECTIVE 2001/95/EC
1
Chemical products
detergents, lamp oil, glue, tattoo ink, cleaning and washing products
Childcare articles and
children's equipment
soother holder, baby shoes / first socks, teething ring, pooh rattle, soft
carry cot, child’s bib, baby changing mat + swing for children, highchair,
pushchair, scooter, travel cot, child's bicycle, crib
baby overall, children pants, gloves, underpants, children’s clothing,
sweater, slippers, including fashion items (wigs, etc.)
computer, mobile phones, cameras
2
3
4
5
Clothing and fashion
items
Communication and
media equipment
Cosmetics
Decorative articles
Gadgets
candles, oil lamps, ornamental garden torches, Christmas decorative
articles except electrical lighting chains
cord extension set, cable reel, sunbeds, water heater, incl. household
appliances
products that resemble food and are child-appealing (plastic decorative
articles, bath products, candles)
mattress, bunkbeds, excluding children's equipment, incl. garden
furniture
joke items, pill box, fluorescent straws, CD holder
Gas appliances
Hand tools
See directive
saws, hammers, screwdrivers No electrical
Hobby/sports equipment
harness, sport air gun with laser beam, cycling gloves, multi-gym,
bicycles but not children's bicycles, camping articles
rings, earrings, necklace
6
Electrical appliances
7
Food-imitating products
8
Furniture
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12
13
14
toothpaste, soap, body lotion, lightening cream, nail polish, make-up
Jewellery
soup plate, thermal flask, pressure cooker No electrical
16
Kitchen/cooking
accessories
Laser pointers
17
Lighters
novelty lighters
18
Lighting chains
19
Lighting equipment
recessed luminaires, table lamps, floor lamp, night lights
20
Machinery
incl. garden machines, incl. machine tools
21
Motor vehicles
passenger cars, incl. mini motorbikes, incl. motor vehicle parts
22
Other
23
Protective equipment
helmets, sunglasses, working gloves, life jackets
24
Recreational crafts
boats, inflatable life rafts, personal water crafts, outboard engine
25
Stationery
pens, pencils, erasers, watercolours
Toys
toy phone, radio-controlled aeroplane, role costume, wooden push
along toy
15
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We no longer use:
 Bath and hygiene products (became part of Cosmetics, or – in case of cleaning and washing
products – Chemical products)
 Construction products (in case of one, classify it under Others)
 Household appliances (became part of Electrical appliances)
 Garden and camping articles (garden furniture under Furniture; garden machines under
Machinery; camping articles under Hobby/sports equipment)
 Machine tools (became Machinery; if not electrical, then Hand tools)
 Motor vehicle parts (became Motor vehicles)
 Pet accessories (in case of one, classify it under Others)
 Pyrotechnical products (in case of one, classify it under Others)
 Vehicles (if children's bicycle, then Childcare articles and children's equipment; if other, then
Hobby/sports equipment)
LIST OF TYPES OF RISKS WHICH SHOULD BE USED IN NOTIFICATIONS WHICH ARE SENT
UNDER THE GENERAL PRODUCTS SAFETY DIRECTIVE 2001/95/EC
1
Burns
Tactile injury, heat, etc. – versus fire
2
Chemical
Including allergy, cancer, poisoning
Choking
Mechanical obstruction of the flow of air from the environment
into the lungs. Choking prevents breathing and can be partial or
complete. Prolonged or complete choking results in asphyxiation
and is potentially fatal. Choking can be caused by, e.g.,
introduction of a foreign object into the airway.
3
4
Cuts
5
Damage to hearing
6
7
Damage to sight
8
Drowning
Electric shock
9
Fire
10
11
12
13
Health risk / other
Injuries
Microbiological
External and internal
Including bacteriological, viruses, mould,…
Suffocation
result of airway obstruction external to the mouth and nose or
internal airway obstruction by closing off the flow of air from the
mouth and nose by objects wedged in the mouth or pharynx or
lodged over the entrance to the lower airways
We no longer use:
Allergy (became Chemical)
Cancer/carcinogenic (became Chemical)
Poisoning (became Chemical)
Release of metals (became Chemical)
Explosion
Irritations
Skin lesion
Skin irritations