CHAPTER VI U.K. [F1 MARKET SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL OF PPE ENTERING THE UNITED KINGDOM MARKET]

Article 40 U.K. Compliant PPE which presents a risk

1. Where, having carried out an evaluation under Article 38(1), [F2 the enforcement authority] finds that although PPE is in compliance with this Regulation, it presents a risk to the health or safety of persons, it shall require the relevant economic operator to take all appropriate measures to ensure that the PPE concerned, when placed on the market, no longer presents that risk, to withdraw the PPE from the market or to recall it within a reasonable period, commensurate with the nature of the risk, as it may prescribe.

2. The economic operator shall ensure that corrective action is taken in respect of all the PPE concerned that he has made available on the market F3 ....

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Textual Amendments

F2 Words in Art. 40(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. 35 para. 3(38)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in Art. 40(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. 35 para. 3(38)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4 Art. 40(3)-(5) 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. 35 para. 3(38)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Textual Amendments

F1 Ch. 6 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. 35 para. 3(34); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)