Ref. Ares(2022)2004385 - 18/03/2022
Pledge should not be mixed with legislative requirements. On the new blocks, they welcomed
group of stakeholders.
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Commissioner Reynders thanked participants for their remarks and their readiness to continue the
discussions. He stressed that voluntary initiatives would always need to go further than the legislative
requirements. He appreciated the parallel evolution of the Pledge and the legislative framework. He
nevertheless saw a strong potential in building already on the experiences with the Product Safety
Pledge. As a first step he suggested to consider inviting new stakeholders into the cooperation, and to
see how we could provide better information on product safety to consumers. He nevertheless also
underlined that we could also focus on the new building blocks and gave examples that could be
achieved easier: for example, on enforcement he mentioned the cooperation on COVID-related scams.
Commissioner Reynders also mentioned the afternoon brainstorming on the future of the Pledge during
the Annual Digital Event. During the Consumer Summit he would like to inform the public on the results
of our work, take stock on the implementation of the current Pledge (successes and challenges) and to
look at its future. He understands that the priority could be to look at the product safety related
commitments first, if it were not possible to progress on all the building blocks. He nevertheless invited
