Policies for Ensuring Consumer Safety must be advanced through the prompt and efficient implementation of measures that are found to be necessary based on expert knowledge, with a view to preventing Actual and Potential Consumer-Related Incidents from occurring and preventing instances of harm from Actual and Potential Consumer-Related Incidents from increasing.
Policies for Ensuring Consumer Safety must be advanced with a view to contributing to enhancing convenience for the Consumer while taking care to ensure appropriate business conduct by Enterprises and responding correctly to the growing sophistication and diversification of Consumer needs and other changes in socioeconomic conditions.
Policies for Ensuring Consumer Safety must be advanced under the close cooperation of the national and local governments, in a way that allows local governments to fully exercise their autonomy and independence.
消費者安全の確保に関する施策の推進は、国及び地方公共団体の緊密な連携の下、地方公共団体の自主性及び自立性が十分に発揮されるように行われなければならない。
定義第二条第五項・法令全体に適用
次に掲げる事故又は事態
わかりやすく言うと
商品や役務などの使用等に伴い消費者の生命・身体に政令で定める程度の被害が出た事故(安全性の欠如によらないことが明らかなものを除く)、消費安全性を欠く商品等や役務の使用等でそうした事故のおそれがある政令の要件に当たる事態、虚偽や誇大な広告など政令で定める行為を事業者がした事態の総称です。