Product Compliance News
We will from now on be taking current developments from the entire field of product compliance into consideration in this Newsletter: Our clients are increasingly being confronted both nationally and internationally with regulatory requirements which do not originate solely from product safety law. These are accompanied by increasingly strict legislative requirements, for example with respect to energy or environmental efficiency, electronic/electrical waste, food and chemicals law or even supposedly insignificant requirements such as those represented by measuring instruments regulations. All of these factors are of central importance for product distribution without state intervention. We have therefore renamed our Newsletter “Product Compliance” to reflect this expansion of its content.
On 13 December 2014, the Food Information Regulation (FIR) will enter into force. This legal instrument goes hand in hand with harmonised labelling requirements which must be observed by food business operators. We have compiled a helpful summary of the most important changes for you in a short article.
The European Commission is, however, trying to push ahead with its plans for fundamental reforms and changes to European product safety law with the European Product Safety and Market Surveillance Package which has been presented. It has, however, had to accept a setback with respect to the extremely controversial country of origin regulation (“made in…”) because the majority of Member States in the Council are currently opposing this requirement and therefore blocking draft regulations.
The regular “guest contribution” in this issue is from South America. Our Chilean colleague, Mr van Weezel, from the law firm Claro & Cia. (Santiago de Chile) provides an overview of the regulatory framework for obligations there for hazardous products.
Finally, we would also like to draw your attention to a very surprising change in the administrative practice of “ear” (German national register for waste electric equipment) with respect to rucksacks, bags and school bags with integrated lamps and the risks associated with the distribution of clothing contaminated with hazardous substances.
We hope you enjoy reading this issue of our Newsletter. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any suggestions or questions.
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