• Producers and importers are obliged to place only safe products on the market.
• Any unsafe products should be reported to the Market Surveillance Directorate at the Malta Standards Authority.
• Unsafe products are notified to the European Commission via the Rapex system.
• Rapex ensures that information about dangerous products identified by national authorities is quickly circu-lated among other national authorities.
• In less than two years the Market Surveillance Directorate has notified Rapex of 31 dangerous products in Malta.