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Author
Title
Consumer product safety / Geraint Howells.
Published
Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1998]
Copyright
©1998
Call Number
Comp 530 H839c 1998
ISBN
1855214741 (hardbound)
Description
ix, 388 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)39033344
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1
Consumer Product Safety Regulation
1
Introduction
1
Data Collection
13
Pre-Market Controls
15
Post-Market Controls
46
Export Controls
54
2
Product Safety - The European Dimension
61
Why is Product Safety a Matter of Concern to Europe?
61
Technical Barriers to Trade
62
Technical Standards Directive
70
Positive Harmonisation
75
Relationship Between Essential Safety Requirements and Standards
85
Standardisation
87
Conformity Assessment
100
EHLASS
117
General Product Safety Directive
119
Fortress Europe?
155
Conclusions
156
3
International Product Safety
159
Introduction
159
WTO
160
ISO
177
OECD
187
UN
189
Conclusions
194
4
United States
195
Introduction
195
Consumer Product Safety Commission
198
Voluntary Standardisation
240
Conclusions
249
5
United Kingdom
251
Introduction
251
Accident Data Collection
251
Legal Regulation
253
Standardisation
286
Consumer Movement
293
Conclusions
294
6
France
299
Introduction
299
History
300
Institutions
301
Law of 1 August 1905
308
Law of 21 July 1983
313
General Criminal Law
323
Reform
323
Standards
324
Conclusions
328
7
Germany
331
Introduction
331
Data Collection
333
Institutions
336
Geratesicherheitsgesetz (GSG)
341
Implementation of the EC General Product Safety Directive
352
Standardisation
358
Conclusions
363
8
Conclusions
365
Internationalisation of Consumer Product Safety
365
Role of the Regions
366
Deregulation - Standards and Beyond
367
Consumer Input
367
Regulators
369
Exports
370
Final Hopes
371
Index
373