EU Updates Standards for Presumption of Conformity with Toy Safety Directive

SafeGuardSToys and Juvenile ProductsDecember 23, 2025

SG 188/25

The European Union (EU) has made two updates to its list of standards for demonstrating compliance with toy safety requirements.

On December 16, 2025, the EU issued Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/2519 (the Decision) to revise Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/740 (SafeGuardS 45/23) by updating two standards for the presumption of conformity with Directive 2009/48/EC on toy safety (current consolidated version to December 2022).

Key changes in the Decision are summarized in Table 1.

	Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/2519 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/740	Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/740
Standard	EN 71-3:2019+A2:2024 ‘Migration of certain elements’ (SafeGuardS 181/24)	EN 71-3:2019+A1:2021
Standard	EN 71-13:2021+A2:2024 ‘Olfactory board games, cosmetic kits and gustative games’ (SafeGuardS 12/25)	EN 71-13:2021+A1:2022
Effective date	December 16, 2025 (date of publication in the Official Journal of the EU)	In force (these two entries will be deleted on June 16, 2027) During this period both old and new versions may be used to demonstrate conformity

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