Press Release: Consumers: EU to set new safety standards for child care products

Member States across the EU look set next to give a green light to two new child safety standards – for 'childproof' locking devices for windows and balcony doors and child bathing articles – as part of a much broader drive to update safety standards for a range of child care products across the EU. There are currently no EU standards for these articles. The new standards will ensure that window and balcony door locking devices are fully 'childproof' as well as raising overall safety standards. For nursery bathing articles, for example, bath seats for very young babies, the standards will improve the stability and safety requirements and impose new clear warnings for carers. Member States will vote to give a green light to proceed with the new standards in a vote in the General Product Safety Committee on 15 June, 2009.