Summary of references to Harmonised standards under the Directive on Safety of Toys (Toys Safety Directive)

Information updated as of June 2024

Genorma.com provides you with an updated list of harmonised standards (harmonized standards) providing presumption of conformity in the context of the Toys Safety Directive.

The summary below consolidates the references of harmonised standards published by the Commission in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) for Safety of Toys.

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This summary was generated on 5 April 2023 and confirmed to be still valid as of June 2024.

What are harmonised standards under the Toys Safety Directive and why they are useful?

Article 13 (Presumption of conformity) of the Toys Safety Directive or DIRECTIVE 2009/48/EC on the safety of toys indicates that:

Toys which are in conformity with harmonised standards or parts thereof, the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, shall be presumed to be in conformity with the requirements covered by those standards or parts thereof set out in Article 10 and Annex II of the Directive.

Article 19 (Applicable conformity assessment procedures) indicates that before placing a toy on the market, manufacturers shall use the conformity assessment procedures referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Directive to demonstrate that the toy complies with the requirements set out in Article 10 and Annex II.

If the manufacturer has applied harmonised standards, the reference number of which has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, covering all relevant safety requirements for the toy, it shall use the internal production control procedure set out in Module A of Annex II to Decision No 768/2008/EC.

In the following cases, the toy shall be submitted to EC-type examination, as referred to in Article 20, together with the conformity to type procedure set out in Module C of Annex II to Decision No 768/2008/EC:

(a) where harmonised standards, the reference number of which has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, covering all relevant safety requirements for the toy, do not exist;

(b) where the harmonised standards referred to in point (a) exist but the manufacturer has not applied them or has applied them only in part;

(c) where one or more of the harmonised standards referred to in point (a) has been published with a restriction;

(d) when the manufacturer considers that the nature, design, construction or purpose of the toy necessitate third party verification.

The latest summary of Harmonised standards under the Toys Safety Directive is (see also details of the standards at the end of the page):

Reference number of the standard (C)	OJ reference for publication in OJ (2)	Restriction (3)	Date of start of presumption of conformity with restriction (4)	OJ reference for publication of a restriction in OJ (5)	Date of withdrawal from OJ (end of presumption of conformity) (6)	OJ reference for withdrawal from OJ (7)
EN 71-1:2014+A1:2018	OJ C 282 - 10/08/2018	-		-		-
EN 71-2:2020	OJ L 405 - 16/11/2021	-		-		-
EN 71-3:2019+A1:2021	OJ L 405 - 16/11/2021	-		-		-
EN 71-4:2020	OJ L 405 - 16/11/2021	-		-		-
EN 71-5:2015	OJ C 378 - 13/11/2015	-		-		-
EN 71-7:2014+A3:2020	OJ L 190 - 31/05/2021	-		-		-
EN 71-8:2018	OJ C 282 - 10/08/2018	-		-		-
EN 71-12:2016	-	Informative note: The limit values in point a) of Table 2 of clause 4.2 of standard ‘EN 71-12:2016 Safety of toys — Part 12: N-Nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances’ are lower than the limit values to be complied with set in point 8 of part III of Annex II to Directive 2009/48/EC. In particular those values are as follows: - N-nitrosamines: 0,01 mg/kg (Standard EN 71-12:2016);0,05 mg/kg (Directive 2009/48/EC) -N-nitrosatable: 0,1 mg/kg (Standard EN 71-12:2016); 1 mg/kg (Directive 2009/48/EC).	31/05/2021	OJ L 190 - 31/05/2021		-
EN 71-13:2021+A1:2022	OJ L 96 - 05/04/2023	-		-		-
EN 71-14:2018	OJ L 195 - 23/07/2019	-		-		-
EN IEC 62115:2020,  EN IEC 62115:2020/A11:2020	OJ L 190 - 31/05/2021	-		-		-

Please note the restriction for EN 71-12:2016 as described above.

Click below on the list of harmonised standards under the toys directive (see restriction for EN 71-12:2016 as described above).