Toy safety at the KIDS’ TIME trade fair

KIDS’ TIME - Poland’s biggest trade fair featuring products and services for mother and children commences in Kielce in two weeks’ time.

Join us in the Targi Kielce Congress Centre for a one-day seminar devoted to the legal issues associated with toy safety will be held during the exhibition (2nd March). The seminar will focus upon the new Toy Safety Directive.

The new Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/WE has been a mandatory regulation for all EU member states since July 2011; it has also a great impact on your company. The experts invited to conduct the seminar will make the participants familiar with the new requirements and provide answers to all pertinent questions

Programme of the meeting:

10.00 Registration
10.15 New directive – chaired by Monika Chmielińska, President of Board of Polish Toy and Child Product Association
10.30 What is the new directive significance for your company; legal requirements for business entities – Krzysztof Zawiślak, the Head Specialist at the Department of Economic Regulations of the Ministry of Economy, Catherine van Reeth; the Director General of Toy Industries of Europe
11.15 Coffee break
11.45 Import and market control in Poland – Danuta Budkiewicz, Advisor to the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, Department of Market Surveillance
12.30 Lunch break (lunch provided by the organisers)
13.30 Ensuring conformity; the three key areas; safety assessment, technical documentation and the requirements regarding chemical substances; Christian Wetterberg, Director for Governmental Affairs at LEGO company, the Chair of the Technical Committee for Toy Safety at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a member of the Technical Committee for Safety of Toys at European Committee for Standardization (CEN)