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1.[F4Market surveillance authorities must] ensure that any measure taken, pursuant to [F5any relevant enactment], to prohibit or restrict the product's being made available on the market, to withdraw it from the market or to recall it, is proportionate and states the exact grounds on which it is based.
2.Such measures [F6must] be communicated without delay to the relevant economic operator, which [F6must] at the same time be informed of the [F7legal] remedies available F8... and of the time limits to which such remedies are subject.
3.Prior to the adoption of a measure referred to in paragraph 1, the economic operator concerned [F9must] be given the opportunity to be heard within an appropriate period of not less than 10 days, unless such consultation is not possible because of the urgency of the measure to be taken, as justified by health or safety requirements or other grounds relating to the public interests covered by [F10any of the relevant enactments]. If action has been taken without the operator's being heard, the operator [F9must] be given the opportunity to be heard as soon as possible and the action taken [F9must] be reviewed promptly thereafter.
4.Any measure referred to in paragraph 1 [F11must] be promptly withdrawn or amended upon the economic operator's demonstrating that he has taken effective action.
Textual Amendments
F4Words in Art. 21(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 33 para. 21(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5Words in Art. 21(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 33 para. 21(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F6Word in Art. 21(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 33 para. 21(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F7Word in Art. 21(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 33 para. 21(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F8Words in Art. 21(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 33 para. 21(b)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F9Word in Art. 21(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 33 para. 21(c)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F10Words in Art. 21(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 33 para. 21(c)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F11Word in Art. 21(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 33 para. 21(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Textual Amendments
F3Word in Ch. 3 s. 2 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 33 para. 16; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Textual Amendments
F1Word in Ch. 3 heading omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 33 para. 13(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Words in Ch. 3 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 33 para. 13(b) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1460, reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 22(5)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)