The primary purpose of this second PROSAFE Joint Action on child resistant lighters and novelty lighters is to ensure that lighters placed on the EU market are safe.
Furthermore, the purpose is to gather experience related to best practice techniques in following up large joint actions and to further develop best practices for national market surveillance actions including cooperation with customs (nationally and internationally).
Even though reports from EU Member States indicate that novelty lighters constitute a decreasing share of their markets, the results of the first PROSAFE joint action on lighters did in fact show that a large share of the lighter models on the European market still do not comply with the legal requirements. This observation has also been emphasised by European stakeholders that repeatedly stressed the need for a long-term engagement of commitment from the Member States to clean up the market.
Therefore, PROSAFE and Market surveillance authorities from 13 EU Member State countries decided to carry out this second Joint Action on lighters which follows up the PROSAFE joint action undertaken by 15 member states in the years 2007- 2009.
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