European Regulation of Consumer Product Safety [Hardcover]

This book examines European legislation that regulates the safety of consumer products. There are different legal requirements for medicines, machines, electronics, toys and so on, which employ different regulatory mechanisms. Hodges compares the various mechanisms and asks why particular mechanisms are used, or not used for different products. The book then moves on to consider what is meant by product safety , demonstrating the relativity of this concept.


Abbreviations
List of Legislation
List of Cases
List of Authorities
Introduction
1. Theoretical aspects of regulation
Part One: Description of the main regulatory systems at Community level
2. Introduction
3. Competency and policy considerations in the EC Treaty
4. Medicinal products
5. New Approach products
6. Biocides, cosmetics, tobacco and general consumer products
Part Two: Mechanisms for safety
7. Introduction
8. Pre-market assessment
9. Control of the manufacturing environment
10. Providing information
11. Post-marketing obligations on manufacturers
12. Post-marketing obligations on the authorities
13. Control of distribution
14. Obligations on users
15. Conclusion
Part Three: Theoretical issues and conclusions
16. Introduction
17. The Community institutions involved and their mechanisms of governance
18. Safety and risk
19. Conclusions
Appendices
Appendix 1. The Pharmacovigilance System
Appendix 2. Statistics on the safety of general consumer products
Appendix 3. Statistics on the safety of medicinal products
Appendix 4. Statistics on the safety of electrical products
Appendix 5. Modules for conformity assessment procedures under the New Approach

The book is well researched and exquisitely cited so to provide its readers with a quick reference to the most pertinent case law holdings and legislation in this growing are of lals€