Stricter Product Obligations and Penalties for Manufacturers and Importers: Transition Period for Toys Directive is Running

MUNICH - The new EC Toys Directive is, like good education in the view of conservative pedagogues, clear and strict. The Directive has been promulgated last week (30 June) in the Official Journal of the EU and will therefore have to be transposed into national law (2009/48/EG, OJ L 170 30 June 2009, p. 1). Manufacturers and importers must, within a transition period of two to four years, adjust to the new rules, product safety expert Dr. Arun Kapoor of the law firm Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz explains.