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The Proposed Eu Consumer Product Safety Regulation And Its Potential Conflict With Food Legislation, Luis González Vaqué

Luis González Vaqué

In mid-February of 2013 the European Commission proposed a new package of legislative and non-legislativemeasures to improve consumer product safety and to strengthenmarket surveillance of products in the EU. These measures included the following: – Communication from the Commission on more product safety andbettermarket surveillance inthe Single Market for products [COM(2013) 74 final2]; – Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament...

La Sentencia 'Malagutti-Vezinhet': ¿Quién Es Responsable De La Información Facilitada Por El Sistema Comunitario De Alerta En El Ámbito De La Seguridad De Los Productos?, Luis González Vaqué

Luis González Vaqué

Non-contractual liability on the part of the Community is subject to a number of conditions: unlawfulness of the conduct alleged against the Community institutions, actual damage and the existence of a causal link between the conduct of the institution and the damage complained of. If one of those conditions is not satisfied, the entire action must be dismissed and it is not necessary to consider the other conditions.

The Community rapid alert system for food and feed introduced by Directive 92/59 on general product safety confers on the national authorities only, and not on the Commission, responsibility for establishing whether …

“La Eventual Modificación De La Directiva 85/374/Cee Relativa A La Responsabilidad Por Productos Defectuosos: La Aportación De La Jurisprudencia Del Tribunal De Justicia De Las Comunidades Europeas Al Debate Comunitario”, Luis González Vaqué

Luis González Vaqué

Protection of the consumer requires that all producers involved in the production process should be made liable, in so far as their finished product, component part or any raw material supplied by them was defective; for the same reason, liability should extend to importers of products into the Community and to persons who present themselves as producers by affixing their name, trade mark or other distinguishing feature or who supply a product the producer of which cannot be identified.

La Responsabilidad Civil Por Productos Defectuosos: Perspectivas Para La Aplicación Y El Desarrollo De La Directiva 85/374/Cee, Luis González Vaqué

Luis González Vaqué

En 1985, cuando fue adoptada la Directiva 85/374/ CEE, el legislador comunitario partió de la base de que se trataba de una normativa ‘mejorable’, por lo que impuso a la Comisión la tarea de vigilar la eficacia de su aplicación y de proponer, eventualmente, su revisión.

Con todos sus defectos, la Directiva 85/374/CEE contribuye a incrementar el nivel de protección frente a los productos defectuosos, entre otras razones, porque constituye una ‘espada de Damocles’ que incita a los productores a maximizar sus esfuerzos para producir sin riesgos innecesarios para la salud y la integridad humanas y porque, una vez que …