UK Intends to Revise Toy Safety Standards for Great Britain

SG 096.22

The United Kingdom is proposing to amend the list of toy safety standards for presumption of conformity with its toy legislation in relation to Great Britain. These are proposed to be published and designated accordingly on September 1, 2022.

On August 3, 2022, the UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) issued a notice of proposal to amend the list of designated toy safety standards for presumption of conformity with the Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1881) in relation to Great Britain (GB – England, Wales and Scotland).

The notice of proposal revises six toy safety standards – EN 71 Parts 2 to 4, 7, 12 and 13 (see entries 2 to 4, 6, 8 and 9 to Table 1 below). The references to standards are proposed to be published and designated accordingly under regulation 2A of SI 2011/1881, unless the notice of proposal is withdrawn or revised before September 1, 2022 (29th day from August 3, 2022).

Highlights of the changes in the notice of proposal and a comparison with the existing list of toy safety standards are summarized in Table 1 (SafeGuardS 189/20). Toy safety standards that are not amended in the notice of proposal are included for completeness. With the exception of entry 11 for electric toys, it is interesting to note that the referenced toy safety standards are consistent with those in the European Union (SafeGuardS 153/21). 

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy References to Standards for Toys in Support of the Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1881)

¹Interpretation of Clause 7 of the standard should be taken to require that test portions should not be made up of combined materials prior to the migration and analysis stages of the test
²Limit for climbazole (entry 22 in Table B.1 to Annex B) has been revised from 0.5% to 0.2%. The revision to this preservative was based on the ‘Addendum to the Opinion on Climbazole (P64) ref. SSC/1506/13’ of the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) that was adopted after the publication of EN 71-7:2014+A2:2018
³In point 8 of Part 3 of Schedule 2 to S.I. 2011/1881, the limit values are 0.05 mg/kg for N-nitrosamines and 1 mg/kg for N-nitrosatable substances

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