Activities of Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ related to 2021/0170(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
General Product Safety Regulation (debate)
Amendments (13)
Amendment 204 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24 a (new)
Recital 24 a (new)
(24 a) It is important to ensure that the contact information of all economic operators intervening in the supply and distribution chain is easily accessible to consumers and market surveillance authorities and that products are accompanied with the relevant documentation. This Regulation should allow for the possibility to provide relevant information on the product in a paper or in a digital form, depending of the choice of the consumer, by means of electronic solutions, such as a QR or data matrix code, which could ensure that this information is available and accessible over time.
Amendment 395 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Manufacturers shall inform the market surveillance authorities about and investigate the complaints received that concern products they made available on the market, and which have been identified as dangerous by the complainant, and shall keep a register of these complaints as well as of product recalls.
Amendment 401 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Manufacturers shall make publicly available to consumers, communication channels such as telephone number, electronic address or dedicated section of their website, allowing the consumers and consumer associations to file complaints and to inform them of any accident or safety issue they have experienced with the product.
Amendment 406 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Personal data stored in the register of complaints shall only be those personal data that are necessary for the manufacturer to investigate the complaint about an alleged dangerous product. Such data shall only be kept as long as it is necessary for the purpose of investigation and no longer than, for a period of maximum five years after they have been encoded, or until the final court decision if the complaint is subject to a court case.
Amendment 411 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3
Article 8 – paragraph 3
Amendment 425 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5
Article 8 – paragraph 5
5. Manufacturers shall keep the technical documentation, for a period of tenmaximum five years after the product has been placed on the market, but no longer than a period equal with the life expectancy of the product and make it available to the market surveillance authorities, upon request.
Amendment 453 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 11 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Manufacturers shall keep the market surveillance authorities, distributors, importers and, where applicable, responsible persons and online marketplaces in the supply chain concerned informed of any safety issue that they have identified.
Amendment 479 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
Amendment 482 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1
Importers shall ensure that the communication channels referred to in Article 8(2), second subparagraph, are available to consumers, market surveillance authorities and consumer associations allowing them to present complaints and communicate any accident or safety issue they have experienced with the product. If such channels are not available the importer shall provide for them.
Amendment 483 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Importers shall investigate complaints and information on accidents related to products they made available on the market, which have been identified as dangerous by the complainant, and file those complaints, as well as products recalls, in the register referred to in Article 8(11b), second subparagraph, or in their own register. Importers shall keep the market surveillance authorities, the manufacturer, distributors and, where applicable, online marketplaces, informed of the investigation performed and of the results of the investigation.
Amendment 696 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 28 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. The Commission, as part of the Consumer Safety Network, shall coordinate the creation, implementation and maintenance of an injury and accidents statistical database for harmonized and non-harmonized products at the European Union level. This database shall have statistical analysis purposes and shall be used by all market surveillance authorities in the Union and opened to all the stakeholders for research and analysis with the aim of improving the safety of the products.
Amendment 699 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 29 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The Member States through market surveillance authorities shall cooperate with the relevant authorities for the proper introduction of relevant information in the injury and accidents statistical database, shall ensure the interoperability of the national databases with the pan-European database. The Commission shall adopt an implementing act to detail the information to be entered in the system and the modalities of functioning of the database. The Commission shall also draw up guidelines for the practical implementation of the database.
Amendment 718 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 2
Article 32 – paragraph 2
2. Consumers shall have the possibility to inform the Commission, directly or thorough the market surveillance authorities, of products presenting a risk to consumer health and safety through a separate section of the Safety Gate portal. The Commission shall take in due consideration the information received and ensure follow up, where appropriate.