Germany Stricter limit on EN71 Part 3

By the contested decision, the European Commission granted the German Government’s request, submitted to the Commission under Article 114(4) TFEU, for approval of the maintenance of the national provisions imposing limit values for the below heavy metals. As regards the limit values for lead, barium, arsenic, antimony and mercury – which correspond to the values which had been established by Council Directive 88/378/EEC of 3 May 1988 on the approximation of the laws of the Member State concerning the safety of toys (OJ 1988 L 187, p. 1) (‘the old toys directive’) –, the Commission essentially rejected the German Government’s request and decided that in future the limit values fixed by Directive 2009/48 (‘the new toys directive’) would be applied.

Element	EN 71-3 in mg/kg, which converts the bioavailability limit values of the old toys directive (applied in national law)		New toys directive in mg/kg
Lead	90		160
Arsenic	25		47
Mercury	60		94
Barium	1 000		56 000
Antimony	60		560

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=9ea7d2dc30dbcd0b09e6110443adac61c0ce28e2bc9e.e34KaxiLc3qMb40Rch0SaxuLbNz0?text=&docid=137428&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=1374429

This Germany heavy metal limit was finally turned down by General Court of European Union.(on May 2014)
http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-05/cp140072en.pdf