Question 12559 — consumption

Summary

Ms. Sylvie Ferrer draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty to the study which revealed the non-compliance of toys sold on non-European platforms. The European and French Toy Federations have inspected 70 products, almost all of which do not comply with the requirements of European standards. 86% of toys sold on marketplaces turn out to be be dangerous and pose serious risks to the safety and health of children. This rate of dangerousness is increasing since the rate was only 80% in the study published a year earlier. Which means that the lack of controls and repression encourages impunity. Concretely, these toys intended for the youngest contain small elements which can be ingested or inhaled, presenting risks choking. Worse still, children have direct access to lithium button batteries on certain products, exposing them “to severe dangers of internal injury”. Among these marketplaces are the best known: Temu, Shein, Amazon, Cdiscount. The persistence of these lawless zones is intolerable. The Shein platform scandal highlighted for a few days the problem of compliance with the rules by marketplaces. non-European markets. All flows were blocked for 24 hours at Roissy airport and 100,000 packages were checked. But today, this file is in the shadows again and the flow has resumed without the appropriate controls. The two services which should be mobilized in this framework - the DGCCRF and customs - are undergoing drastic cuts. Today there are 16,500 French customs officers for 48,000 German customs officers; France has removed between 20 and 30% of its resources to fight against fraud. Regarding the DGCCRF, its workforce experienced a reduction of 911 FTEs between 2007 and 2022, corresponding to a drop of almost a quarter of the workforce; yet its missions are numerous: it is in charge of respecting labeling rules and the fairness of commercial practices, in stores and on the internet: price, name, characteristics and composition of products or services, conditions of sale, veracity of claims and advertising... It fights against falsifications and deception. It controls the conformity and safety of non-food products and services to ensure the safety and health of consumers. And this, both at the level of production, import and marketing, as well as at the level of distribution. The numbers are so weak for the number of its missions that this service is not able to carry out them on a permanent basis, this is how it operates in “punch actions” mode. Under such conditions, the expected controls cannot be ensured on a regular basis. The MP questions the Minister on the long-term measures put in place to protect young consumers and benefit compliant national brands outside of the communication that was made around the Shein affair. National brands notably request the automatic delisting of marketplaces when the control authorities identify a rate of non-compliant products greater than 5%. This delisting could be lifted when the platform has demonstrated its compliance with security rules and standards. She asks him his position on the subject.

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