3.3.4. European Commission U.K.
The Commission may inform the RAPEX Contact Points (see Part II, Chapter 5.1) regarding products posing serious risks, imported into or exported from the Community and the European Economic Area(1).
The Commission may transmit information to the Member States about products of EU and non-EU origin posing a risk that, according to the information available, are likely to be on the EU market. This mainly concerns information that the Commission receives from third countries, international organisations, businesses or other rapid alert systems.
This information might be circulated amongst Member States by means other than the RAPEX application.
(1)
See point 9 of Annex II of Directive 2001/95/EC.