Physical activities are an integral part of children's everyday life. Therefore, both indoors and outdoors, at home, at public playgrounds and leisure centres, children are offered a variety of equipment for playing – sandboxes, play houses, swings, slides, various climbing walls and other equipment for different activities. What safety requirements are related to playground equipment?

Equipment for playing intended for individual use in the family, both indoors and outdoors, is treated as toys- activity toys. Requirements of the Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC are applicable to them. Manufacturers of such playgrounds and equipment must use the procedures set out in the Directive for conformity assessment of products and the products must be labelled with the CE mark.

Equipment installed in the public playgrounds must comply with the basic requirements laid down in the EU General Product Safety Directive 2001/95/EC. Safety requirements for playgrounds are set in the European Standard series EN 1176 and EN 1177. Application of these standards is voluntary.

Services offered by LATSERT for assessment of playground equipment: 

• CE certification - for activity toys for domestic use,

• checking the requirements set in the EN standards by carrying out testing; 

• issuing a conclusion on the conformity of playground equipment to the requirements of EN standards.

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LATSERT was founded in 1994 with the order of Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia as an authority of the Ministry of Welfare. Currently LATSERT, like other European Union conformity assessment bodies, operates as a private company. During its operation LATSERT has grown purposefully, while evolving both professionally and in terms of technical support, and developing a range of unique services, which yet have no analogues in Latvia and Baltic States, thus securing its leading position in its field of activity of product certification and testing.

LATSERT started its activities as an assessment body offering only certification services in three product groups (food, toys, cosmetics), while currently it provides certification, testing, training, expertise, consulting as well as other services in more than 10 product groups.

LATSERT was the first product certification and testing institution in Latvia accredited according to the European requirements. LATSERT accreditation in 1996 in the German national system (DAR) was an important step not only for the recognition of LATSERT in Europe but also for the development of Latvian national quality assurance system.

Currently LATSERT is accredited in the EU in all the conformity assessment areas included in its field of activity and it is the EU notified and Latvian authorized body for product assessment of products in accordance with more than 20 regulations.

LATSERT is the leading and the most experienced product conformity assessment body in Latvia. 

Since the very beginning of its operations in 1994 LATSERT has grown purposefully, matured and demonstrated their competence in different areas of product assessment on international level. 

LATSERT today:

• European Commission's (EC) notified body under the Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 – CE certification of fertilisers;

• European Commission's (EC) notified body under the Directive 2009/48/EC – Safety of Toys;

• Approved EC laboratory for testing of fertilisers, cigarettes and wines;

• Accredited and authorized institution for certification and testing of more than 10 groups of various types of products; 

• Provides a wide range of services in the field of safety and quality of products including certification and testing of products, training, expertise;

• Has a successful cooperation with clients in more than 15 countries around the world.

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