CPSC Postpones Vote on New Compliance Cert Requirements; No New Date Set
The Consumer Product Safety Commission postponed its vote on a draft proposed rule to change product safety certifications of compliance. The vote was originally scheduled for Jan. 16. According to Commissioner Nancy Nord, the rule would require electronic filing of CPSC compliance certificates along with other entry documents, and add new required data elements. It would also require the manufacturer or labeler to file the compliance certificate if the product is directly received by a consumer, she said.
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“The commissioners and their staff are still working on the rule,” said Scott Wolfson, director of communications at CPSC. “We don’t have a rescheduled date yet, but hopefully it won’t be too far down the line.”
(See ITT's Online Archives 13011004 for summary of Nord's remarks at the annual meeting of the U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel Jan. 9, where she discussed possible provisions of the proposed rule.)