3. How do you prove compliance with the general safety obligation?

According to the General Product Safety Directive 2001/95/EC, a product's compliance with the general safety requirement is assessed by taking into account :

• specific Community and national regulations governing product safety;

• non-mandatory national standards transposing European standards or standards specific to the country of sale;

• Commission recommendations establishing guidelines for product safety assessment;

• codes of conduct in force ;

• the current state of knowledge and technology;

• the safety that consumers can reasonably expect.

The company must be able to prove compliance with this obligation by means of documents created and...