Ruohonen Jukka
University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Int Cybersecur Law Rev. 2022;3(2):345-366. doi: 10.1365/s43439-022-00057-8. Epub 2022 Jun 17.
Product safety has been a concern in Europe ever since the early 1960s. Despite the long and relatively stable historical lineage of product safety regulations, new technologies, changes in the world economy, and other major transformations have in recent years again brought product safety to the forefront of policy debates. As reforms are also underway, there is a motivation to review the complex safety policy framework in the European Union (EU). Thus, building on deliberative policy analysis and an interpretative literature review, this paper reviews the safety policy for nonfood consumer products in the EU. The review covers the historical background and the main laws, administration and enforcement, standardization and harmonization, laws enacted for specific products, notifications delivered by national safety authorities, recalls of dangerous products, and the liability of these. Based on the review and analysis of these themes and the associated literature, some current policy challenges are further discussed.
自20世纪60年代初以来，产品安全问题在欧洲一直备受关注。尽管产品安全法规有着悠久且相对稳定的历史传承，但近年来，新技术、世界经济的变化以及其他重大变革再次将产品安全推到了政策辩论的前沿。由于改革也在进行中，因此有必要对欧盟复杂的安全政策框架进行审视。因此，基于审议性政策分析和解释性文献综述，本文对欧盟非食品消费品的安全政策进行了审视。该审视涵盖了历史背景、主要法律、行政管理与执法、标准化与协调、针对特定产品颁布的法律、国家安全当局发布的通知、危险产品召回以及相关责任。基于对这些主题及相关文献的审视与分析，进一步讨论了当前一些政策挑战。
