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Legal validation: 15/03/2011
Lighters
What is the recent news about lighters ?
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EU Decision on lighters The European Commission Decision 2010/157/EU amended the original 2006 decision for the fourth time making the legislation that bans the sale of non child resistant and novelty cigarette lighters valid until May 11th 2011. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ... cigarette lighters are child-resistant when placed on the EU market (A child-resistant lighter is a lighter that at least 85% of children under 51 months of age cannot operate) definition of Novelty (...) Read more
Accidents with lighters
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Common accidents with lighters, especially involving children at an early age. Lighters cause between 1,500 and 1,900 injuries and 34 to 40 fatalities per year in the EU, these are due to fire-related accidents caused by children playing with lighters. The EU recently decided to address the risk to children posed by cigarette lighters by banning all novelty lighters (i.e. any lighter that does not look like one). In addition, all nonrefillable lighters must be fitted with a (...) Read more
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COMMISSION DECISION of 12 March 2010, prolonging the validity of Decision 2006/502/EC requiring Member States to take measures to ensure that only lighters which are child-resistant are placed on the market and to prohibit the placing on the http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:067:0009:0009:EN:PDF The General Product Safety Directive http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/safety/prod_legis/index_en.htm Read more
