Sling baby carriers; (HS: 630790); (ICS: 97.140)

SI 13209 part 3: Child use and care articles - Baby carriers - Safety requirements and test methods: Sling carriers (23 page(s), in English; 9 page(s), in Hebrew)

The requirements of the existing standard, SI 13209 part 3, dealing with sling baby carriers, shall be declared mandatory. This declaration is inline with the mandatory standardization objective to protect human safety.

This standard adopts both the European Technical Report CEN/TR 16512: February 2015 and the American Standard ASTM F2907 - 12 and allows compliance with either. The standard's Hebrew section includes the following national deviations:

1.     National deviations from the European Technical Report (CEN/TR):

o     Changes the normative references (paragraph 2);

o     Adds to paragraph 10 a requirement that the warnings shall be in Hebrew and provides in the new normative Annex A an official translation.

2.     National deviations from the American Standard (ASTM):

o     Deletes from the standard's scope a few sentences appearing in paragraph 1.7; 

o     Adds to paragraph 8 a requirement that the warnings shall be in Hebrew and provides in the new normative Annex A an official translation.