The Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) is adapting its organisational structure to help Europe’s industrial ecosystems recover more effectively from the COVID-crisis and to achieve the EU's digital and green goals.
Today, the Commission adopted measures to improve labelling of toys that include potentially allergic fragrances and to prohibit a number of allergenic fragrances to be used in toys.
Today, the Commission launched a public consultation on limiting values for aniline in toys in order to enhance the protection of children’s health.
A call for expression of interest for consultants with expertise in harmonised standards (HAS Consultants) is open. HAS Consultants will assess to what extent documents, or parts thereof, drafted by the European standardisation organisations comply with the European Commission's standardisation requests, and to what extent they deal with and support relevant essential or other requirements set out by the relevant EU harmonisation legislation.
Policy preparation at the European Commission is supported by both retrospective evaluations and forward-looking impact assessments.
Counterfeit and pirated trade is a significant economic risk that undermines innovation and hampers economic growth. This open launch event will present the key findings of a joint OECD-EUIPO (EU International Patent Office) report that includes quantitative analysis on the value of trade in counterfeits and pirated goods worldwide.
This study presents key quantitative analysis on the exponential growth of trade in counterfeits and pirated goods worldwide. It highlights emerging trends, both globally and at country level, and the key industries affected by this illegal activity.
This Call, offering support to design-based consumer goods projects, aims to shorten the time-to-market of innovative solutions, remove obstacles to wider application of creative solutions, create or enlarge markets for related products (or services) and improve the competitiveness of European SMEs in world markets.
Every Christmas the toy industry enjoys a flood of sales, but with challenges such as counterfeiting, demographic changes and technology advancements, they must adapt to stay afloat and at the same time ensure that toys are safe.
The protection of children is a key concern. This is why European toy safety rules are among the strictest in the world. However, Germany is currently not applying agreed EU rules on limit values for levels of arsenic, mercury and antimony in toys.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe will soon have access to up to € 25 bn of additional finance, as a result of an agreement signed today between the European Commission and the European Investment Fund (EIF).
While continuously striving to improve the safety of toys and, at the same time, seeking to cut "red tape" where possible the European Commission took three important decisions in the past weeks.
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on proposals to improve merger control at EU level outlined in a White Paper.
While continuously striving to improve the safety of toys and, at the same time, seeking to cut "red tape" where possible the European Commission has decided to exempt nickel in electric toys from the limit value regarding carcinogenicity (Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC, Annex II, section 3, No 5).
In its continuous strive to improve the safety of toys the European Commission has decided to set a strict limit of 0.1 mg/l (migration limit) in toys for children up to the age of 3 years and in any toys intended to be placed in the mouth.
In its continuous strive to improve the safety of toys the European Commission has decided to drastically reduce the maximum limit value for the flame retardant TCEP (Tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate) to 5 mg/kg in toys for children up to the age of 3 years and in any toys intended to be placed in the mouth.
Just a few days ahead of the European Council, the Commission pushes the EU's smart regulation agenda further.
