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Article L421-6 of the French Consumer Code

A product is presumed to satisfy the general safety obligation set out in article L. 421-3, with regard to the risks and categories of risk covered by the standards applicable to it, where it complies with non-mandatory national standards transposing European standards, the references of which have been published by the European Commission in the Official Journal of the European Union pursuant to Article 4 of Directive 2001/95/EC of 3 December 2001 on general product safety.

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Article L421-6


Un produit est présumé satisfaire à l’obligation générale de sécurité prévue à l’article L. 421-3, en ce qui concerne les risques et les catégories de risque couverts par les normes qui lui sont applicables, lorsqu’il est conforme aux normes nationales non obligatoires transposant les normes européennes dont la Commission européenne a publié les références au Journal officiel de l’Union européenne en application de l’article 4 de la directive 2001/95/ CE du 3 décembre 2001 relative à la sécurité générale des produits.

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