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	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Lasers: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what regulations govern the manufacture, import and sale of laser pens in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Hertsmere
	tabling member printed	Oliver Dowden
	uin	23018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>All products intended for use by consumers are regulated under the General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) 2005 which implements the EU’s General Product Safety Directive (GPSD). This requires such products to be safe when placed on the market and applies to products where there is no other applicable legislation with more specific provisions on safety. This includes laser pens.</p><br /><p>In addition to the legislation, lasers sold in the UK and EU are covered by the safety standard BS EN 60825-1: 1994 Safety of Laser Products. This specifies those lasers which should be used by trained operators and therefore not suitable for use by the general public. Laser products up to 1 mW are considered safe for general consumer use.</p><br /><p>Trading Standards has the powers under the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 to remove laser products from sale to the public, which are unsafe for general consumer use. If anyone is concerned about the safety of a product they should not use it and report it to their local Trading Standards department.</p><br /><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 25/01/2016 15:33:24 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden

450294

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Lasers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2016 to Question 23018, what steps he is taking to limit the availability of laser pens.
	tabling member constituency	Hertsmere
	tabling member printed	Oliver Dowden
	uin	25699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>I refer to my answer of 25 January.</p><p> </p><p>I have asked my officials as a first step to request an urgent update from Trading Standards on their recent market surveillance activities. I am aware that Leicester Trading Standards recently seized 1,500 unsafe laser pens at point of entry and the importer agreed to destroy them.</p><p> </p><p>In addition RAPEX (the European electronic notification platform for the notifying and removal of dangerous consumer products) statistics show 98 different types of laser pointers were removed from the EU market and of these 9 different products were notified by UK market surveillance authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/02/2016 17:58:05 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden

450295

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	General Product Safety Regulations 2005
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2016 to Question 23018, what steps he is taking to enforce the General Product Safety Regulations 2005.
	tabling member constituency	Hertsmere
	tabling member printed	Oliver Dowden
	uin	25700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>Consumer products such as laser pens intended for use by consumers are regulated under The General Product Safety Regulations 2005. BIS is responsible for the legislation but it is enforced by Local Authority Trading Standards Services.</p><p> </p><p>Under the rules, Trading Standards Officers have a range of powers available to them with regards enforcement of the legislation such as requirements to mark or to warn, or to issue withdrawal or recall notices. They also have the power to prosecute traders.</p><p> </p><p>This is a well-established regime that has seen many hundreds of dangerous products taken off the market including laser pens.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/02/2016 17:57:05 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden

450296

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Lasers: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2016 to Question 23018, on lasers: regulation, what steps he is taking to restrict direct sale into the UK to individual customers.
	tabling member constituency	Hertsmere
	tabling member printed	Oliver Dowden
	uin	25701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer to my answer of 25 January.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 and the General Product Safety Regulations, a business importing into the EU/EEA must have a representative within the EU/EEA who is responsible and liable for the safety of imported goods. This enables Customs and Trading Standards to check that imported laser products comply with safety standards. It is harder for them to carry out these checks where customers order goods from a company outside the EU and receive them directly through the post.</p><p> </p><p>We therefore advise customers who want to buy laser products to go to a reputable dealer with authorised representation in the European Union. If consumers are concerned about the safety of laser products on sale they should report the website or retailer to their local Trading Standards department.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/02/2016 17:59:13 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden