Description of BS EN 62115:2005+A12:2015 2015

This European Standard specifies electrical safety requirements for toys that have at least one function dependant on electricity, toys being any product designed or clearly intended, whether or not exclusively, for use in play by children of less than 14 years of age.

Additional requirements for experimental sets are given in Annex A.

Toys using electricity for secondary functions are within the scope of this standard.

Additional requirements for toys incorporating lasers and light-emitting diodes are given in Annex E.

If it is intended that a child also plays with the packaging, the latter is considered to be part of the toy.

This European Standard only covers the electrical safety aspects of toys. Non-electrical safety aspects are covered by EN 71 series. For more details, see Annexes ZZA and ZZB.

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This European Standard does not apply to the following toys:

• playground equipment intended for public use;

• automatic playing machines, whether coin operated or not, intended for public use;

• toy vehicles equipped with combustion engines;

• toy steam engines;

• slings and catapults.

Furthermore, it does not cover the following items, which, for the purpose of this European Standard, are not considered toys:

• electric decorative robots ( EN 50410 );

• decorative objects for festivities and celebrations;

• sports equipment including roller skates, inline skates, and skateboards intended for children with a body mass of more than 20 kg;

• bicycles with a maximum saddle height of more than 435 mm, measured as the vertical distance from the ground to the top of the seat surface, with the seat in a horizontal position and with the seat pillar set to the minimum insertion mark;

• scooters and other means of transport designed for sport or which are intended to be used for travel on public roads or public pathways;

• electrically driven vehicles which are intended to be used for travel on public roads, public pathways, or the pavement thereof;

• aquatic equipment intended to be used in deep water, and swimming learning devices for children, such as swim seats and swimming aids;

• puzzles with more than 500 pieces;

• guns and pistols using compressed gas, with the exception of water guns and water pistols, and bows for archery over 120 cm long;

• products and games using sharp-pointed missiles, such as sets of darts with metallic points;

• functional educational products, such as electric ovens, irons or other functional products operated at a nominal voltage exceeding 24 V which are sold exclusively for teaching purposes under adult supervision;

• fireworks, including percussion caps which are not specifically designed for toys;

• products intended for use for educational purposes in schools and other pedagogical contexts under the surveillance of an adult instructor, such as science equipment;

• electronic equipment, such as personal computers and game consoles, used to access interactive software and their associated peripherals, unless the electronic equipment or the associated peripherals are specifically designed for and targeted at children and have a play value on their own, such as specially designed personal computers, key boards, joy sticks or steering wheels;

• interactive software, intended for leisure and entertainment, such as computer games, and their storage media, such as CDs;

• child-appealing luminaries;

• fashion accessories for children which are not for use in play;

• babies soothers;

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• products for collectors, provided that the product or its packaging bears a visible and legible indication that it is intended for collectors of 14 years of age and above.

  EXAMPLES

  of this category are

  • detailed and faithful scale models,

  • kits for the assembly of detailed scale models,

  • folk dolls and decorative dolls and other similar articles,

  • historical replicas of toys, and

  • reproductions of real firearms.

• toy steam engines;

• scale models for adult collectors;

• folk dolls and decorative dolls and other similar articles for adult collectors;

• sports equipment;

• aquatic equipment intended to be used in deep water;

• equipment intended to be used collectively in playgrounds;

• amusement machines ( IEC 60335‑2‑82 );

• professional toys installed in public places (shopping centres, stations, etc.);

• products containing heating elements intended for use under the supervision of an adult in a teaching context;

• portable luminaries for children ( IEC 60598‑2‑10 );

• video and computer games;

• blowers for inflatable activity toys (e.g. bouncy castles);

• Christmas decorations.

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