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| 2.1. | Harmonised technical specifications established by delegated acts referred to in Article 7(1) may, as appropriate for the products they cover, specify that products shall be designed, manufactured, and packaged in such a way that one or more of the following inherent product safety risks are, over the product’s life cycle, addressed in accordance with the state of the art and to the extent they are not covered by other Union legal acts: (a) chemical risks due to leaking or leaching; (b) the risk of unbalanced composition in terms of substances resulting in flawed, safety-relevant functioning of products; (c) mechanical risks; (d) mechanical failure; (e) physical failure; (f) risks of electric failure; (g) risks linked to electricity supply breakdown; (h) risks linked to unintended charge or discharge of electricity; (i) risks linked to software failure; (j) risks of software manipulation; (k) risks of incompatibility of substances or materials; (l) risks linked to the incompatibility of different items, at least one of them being a product; (m) the risk of not performing as intended, where the performance is safety relevant; (n) the risk of misunderstanding instructions for use in a field affecting health and safety; (o) the risk of unintended inappropriate installation or use; (p) the risk of intended inappropriate use.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-17 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.