Hjem Nikolaj VILLUMSEN

I voted in favour of the report ‘addressing product safety in the Single Market’ as this report includes some important calls to the Commission to improve the current product safety framework and in particular the responsibility of online market places. Too often, consumers are faced with unsafe products when they shop on online platforms and this can be tackled by legal obligations that this report asks for. I am however disappointed that the amendments on the precautionary principle as cornerstone of the revised General Product Safety Directive were not adopted by the EP. Only if we put the precautionary principle as the core of the revised Directive, we can effectively achieve an internal market in which we protect consumers from products that are unsafe and non-compliant with European standards.