Footwear - Labelling Eu

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DIRECTIVE 94/11/EC OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL of 23 March 1994 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to labelling of the materials used in the maincomponents of footwear for sale to the consumer (OJ L 100, 19.4.1994, p. 37)

Amended by: Official Journal No ►M1 Council Directive 2006/96/EC of 20 November 2006 L 363 page 81 date 20.12.2006

Amended by: ►A1 Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic ofHungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded L 236 33 23.9.2003

Corrected by: ►C1 Corrigendum, OJ L 47, 24.2.1996, p. 35 (94/11)

1994L0011 — EN — 01.01.2007 — 002.001 — 2 ▼B DIRECTIVE 94/11/EC OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL of 23 March 1994 on the approximationof the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to labelling of the materials used in the main components of footwear for sale to the consumer

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community and in particular Article 100a thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission(1), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (2), Acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 189b of the Treaty, Whereas in certain Member States there exist Regulations on footwear labelling which are designed to protect and inform the public as well as to secure the legitimate interests of industry; Whereas the disparity of such Regulations riskscreating barriers to trade within the Community, thereby prejudicing the functioning of the internal market; Whereas, in order to avoid problems due to different systems, the items of a common labelling system for footwear should be precisely defined; Whereas the Council resolution of 9 November 1989 on future priorities for relaunching consumer protection policy (3) calls for efforts to improveconsumer information on products; Whereas it is in the interests of both consumers and the footwear industry to introduce a system reducing the risk of fraud by indicating the exact nature of the materials used in the main components of footwear; Whereas, in Council resolution of 5 April 1993 on future action on the labelling of products in the interest of the consumer (4), labelling is deemed to beone important means of achieving better information and transparency for the consumer and of ensuring that the internal market functions harmoniously; Whereas the harmonization of national legislation is the appropriate way of removing these barriers to free trade; whereas that objective cannot be satisfactorily achieved by the individual Member States; whereas this Directive establishes only thoserequirements which are indispensable for the free movement of the products to which it applies,
HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: (1) (2) (3) (4) OJ OJ OJ OJ No No No No C C C C 74, 25. 3. 1992, p. 10. 287, 4. 11. 1992, p. 36. 294, 22. 11. 1989, p. 1. 110, 20. 4. 1993, p. 3.

1994L0011 — EN — 01.01.2007 — 002.001 — 3 ▼B Article 1 1. This Directive shall apply to the labelling of the materials usedin the main components of footwear for sale to the consumer. For the purposes of this Directive, ‘footwear’ shall mean all articles with applied soles designed to protect or cover the foot, including parts marketed separately as referred to in Annex I. A non-exhaustive list of the products covered by the Directive appears in Annex II. The following shall be excluded from the Directive: —...