Dangerous non-food products in Lithuania
...sons, enterprises with no rights of a legal person) would comply with the requirements for product safety and marking prescribed by laws of the Republic of Lithuania, resolutions of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania and other legal acts and that only safe products as well as services would be supplied for consumers to the market; 4.2. protect consumer protection rights and ensure consumer right for information on product safety within the competence prescribed. 5. On fulfilling the objectives set, the Inspectorate shall perform the following functions: 5.1. control whether the non food products (including chemical substances and preparations) being supplied for consumers to the national market were in compliance with the obligatory requirements for safety and marking as prescribed by appropriate legal acts; 5.2. control whether the services (except from those the control of which is the responsibility of other bodies as prescribed by appropriate laws of the Republic of Lithuania and other legal acts) being supplied to consumers were in compliance with the set obligatory safety requirements; 5.3. stop the market supply of those non food products that are dangerous and harmful to consumers, implement the control of the withdrawal of such products from the market and their destruction following the prescribed procedure; 5.4. manage chemical substances and preparations within the competence prescribed; 5.5. provide conclusions as to the risk that new chemical substances may pose for environment and human health; 5.6. implement the procedure of notification in advance concerning chemical substances and preparations based on an agreement; 5.7. manage the Register of dangerous chemical substances and preparations; 5.8. perform the evaluation of risk factors on the basis of the results of analysis of direct and indirect product control and information received from other countries, implement the prevention measures against these risk factors within the competence prescribed; 5.9. control whether the requirements imposed on tobacco import and trade in tobacco products are complied with; 5.10. provide information to national, international and foreign institutions concerned; 5.11. consult producers, service suppliers and sellers on safety issues of non food products and services; 5.12. investigate the complaints from consumers concerning non food products and services that do not comply with appropriate obligatory and declared requirements; 5.13. inform consumers on unsafe products that are present in the market or could be supplied there; 5.14. assist consumers in submitting documentation on evaluation of product safety conformity to law enforcement institutions so that they could protect the infringed rights of the consumers; 5.15. present proposals to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania concerning revision of legal acts that have been adopted to prescribe the safety of non food products and services pursuant to the procedure prescribed; 5.16. spread information on the activities of the Inspectorate, popularize its goals and objectives; 5.17. perform other functions prescribed by laws of the Republic of Lithuania and resolutions of Government of the Republic of Lithuania. III. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE OFFICIALS OF THE INSPECTORATE 6. Officials of the Inspectorate have the following authorizations and rights: 6.1. enter (in case it is necessary when inspecting product safety) the premises of all the economic subjects in the territory of the Republic of Lithuania that supply products to the market on presenting an authorization from the Head of the Inspectorate or a person authorized by him/her and official certificate, and to request assistance from the police in the cases when the performance of duties is being hindered; 6.2. examine free of charge the technical documentation used by the inspected company (natural persons), standards applied and other normative documentation, to receive information and copies of the documents that are necessary for the investigation of infringements of legal acts on product safety as well as to use video and audio recording equipment if it is necessary for the performance of the prescribed functions on a reasonable suspicion that there is non-compliance with requirements for non food products safety; 6.3. obtain product samples from producers, importers and service suppliers that are necessary with a view of examining their safety and non-harmfulness to consumer health; 6.4. receive assistance from specialists of other institutions and impartial experts when the indicators of product safety and non-harmfulness to consumers are being examined; 6.5. suspend the supply of certain products to the market and (or) prohibit the realization of a batch of products, distribution of such products or provision of services, their promotion or demonstration at exhibitions until safety examination would be made; 6.6. propose for relevant institutions to abolish the permissions issued to economic entities and licenses for the performance of such commercial economic activities that resulted in harm to consumer health caused by unsafe products and danger imposed by them to consumer life; 6.7. propose to certification bodies to repeal the certificates pursuant to the procedure prescribed if it has been established that the certified products do not comply with the prescribed requirements; 6.8. require that managers of producing, importing, selling companies as well as those supplying services or persons authorized by these managers would arrive and give oral or written explanations; 6.9. impose administrative penalties to violators in cases prescribed by law as well as impose other sanctions on companies, establishments, and organizations in cases prescribed by law. 7. Officials of the Inspectorate have also other rights and obligations prescribed by legal acts. 8. When executing the objectives commissioned to them, officials of the Inspectorate must: 8.1. hand over the material on infringements of legal acts regulating product safety to law enforcement institutions if such products could have caused harm or did harm to consumer health or when a consumer (-s) died because of such a harm; 8.2. ensure the confidentiality of the information which is a commercial secret. 9. Disputes between the Inspectorate and legal persons, natural persons, and enterprise with no rights of a legal person are solved pursuant to the procedure prescribed by law. IV. WORK ORGANIZATION 10. The Inspectorate is headed by Head that is appointed to or dismissed from the post by the Minister of Economy pursuant to the procedure prescribed by the Law on Service with State of the Republic of Lithuania (Official Gazette, 1999, No. 66-2130). Head of the Inspectorate has deputies who, being career civil servants, are appointed to the post on the basis of tender procedures and dismissed from the post by Head of the Inspectorate pursuant to the procedure prescribed. 11. On fulfilling its objectives and functions, the Inspectorate co-operates and exchanges information with other state institutions which relate to market supply of products for the purposes of establishing conformity with obligatory or declared requirements as well as with citizens and non-governmental organizations. 12. Head of the Inspectorate: 12.1. shall approve the statutes of structural units as well as job descriptions of deput...