Public consultation on the evaluation of the Aerosol Dispensers Directive

Today the European Commission published a public consultation on the evaluation of the Aerosol Dispersers Directive (75/324/EEC)

Aerosol dispensers offer a wide range of products from mass-market goods such as cosmetic and household products to specific aerosol types dedicated for industrial or medical purposes. Aerosol dispensers are safe and easy to use products that are resource efficient and cost effective.

The Aerosol Dispensers Directive Directive is one of the oldest EU legislations related to product safety. The directive was adopted in 1975 harmonising the differing national legislations in force at that time in order to create a genuine European market based on common requirements concerning the safety of the dispensers and the hazards due to pressure.

The objective of the evaluation is to assess whether the Directive is meeting its objectives of guaranteeing free circulation of aerosol dispensers within the EU while ensuring a high degree of safety.

Information will be collected from all stakeholders, including:

• economic operators and their associations.
• public authorities.
• consumers/users and their associations.

This will be done via different techniques such as:

• interviews.
• a targeted consultation of economic operators.
• this public online consultation.

The aim is to collect stakeholders' feedback about the directive to assess the extent to which the Directive has been successful in effectiveness, efficiency, relevance (given the needs and its objectives), coherence and achieving EU added-value.

The consultation consists of an online questionnaire available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish. It runs from 30 September 2016 until 15 January 2017

A background document providing more details is available.

Access the questionnaire on EU Survey

Practical information

Organisations must register in the Transparency Register before answering the questions. Submissions by non-registered organisations will be published separately from those of the registered ones and will be considered as input from individuals.

The information you provide will be used strictly in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data.

Contributions will be published on the Internet in aggregated form in a consultation summary document. Depending on your answer to the specific privacy question, your text-based contributions (replies to open questions) may be quoted in the report under your name, anonymously or only be published in aggregated form.

For detailed information on how the personal data included in the replies will be handled, please see the privacy statement.