Article 8 Additional elements to be taken into account for assessing the safety of products

  1. For the purpose of Article 6 and where the presumption of safety under Article 7 does not apply, when assessing whether a product is safe, the following elements in particular shall be taken into account, when available:
    1. European standards other than those the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union in accordance with Article 10(7) of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;
    2. international standards;
    3. international agreements;
    4. voluntary certification schemes or similar third-party conformity assessment frameworks, in particular those conceived to support Union law;
    5. Commission recommendations or guidelines on product safety assessment;
    6. national standards drawn up in the Member State in which the product is made available;
    7. the state of the art and technology, including the opinion of recognised scientific bodies and expert committees;
    8. product safety codes of good practice in force in the sector concerned;
    9. reasonable consumer expectations concerning safety;
    10. safety requirements adopted in accordance with Article 7(2).