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Replace the first paragraph by the following: This European Standard specifies electrical safety requirements for toys that have at least one function dependant on electricity, toys being any product designed or clearly intended, whether or not exclusively, for use in play by children of less than 14 years of age. Replace the 3rd dash of NOTE 1 by the following: - functional toys (a toy which performs and is used in the same way as a product, appliance or installation intended for use by adults, and which may be a scale model of such product, appliance or installation); Replace the paragraph after Note 2 by the following text: If it is intended that a child also play with the packaging, the latter is considered to be part of the toy. This European Standard only covers the electrical safety aspects of toys. Non-electrical safety aspects are covered by EN 71 series. For more details, see Annexes ZZA and ZZB. Delete Notes 4 and 5. Add the following after Note 3. This European Standard does not apply to the following toys: - playground equipment intended for public use; - automatic playing machines, whether coin operated or not, intended for public use; - toy vehicles equipped with combustion engines; - toy steam engines; - slings and catapults. Furthermore, it does not cover the following items, which, for the purpose of this European Standard, are not considered toys: - transformer for toys and battery chargers, even if supplied with the toy; - detachable electrical cords used for connecting a computer toy to a computer, console, monitor screen or other audio-visual; - electric decorative robots; - decorative objects for festivities and celebrations; - sports equipment including roller skates, inline skates, and skateboards intended for children with a body mass of more than 20 kg; - bicycles with a maximum saddle height of more than 435 mm, measured as the vertical distance from the ground to the top of the seat surface, with the seat in a horizontal position and with the seat pillar set to the minimum insertion mark; - scooters and other means of transport designed for sport or which are intended to be used for travel on public roads or public pathways; - electrically driven vehicles which are intended to be used for travel on public roads, public pathways, or the pavement thereof; - aquatic equipment intended to be used in deep water, and swimming learning devices for children, such as swim seats and swimming aids; - puzzles with more than 500 pieces; - guns and pistols using compressed gas, with the exception of water guns and water pistols, and bows for archery over 120 cm long; - products and games using sharp-pointed missiles, such as sets of darts with metallic points; - functional educational products, such as electric ovens, ir 57 ons or other functional products operated at a nominal voltage exceeding 24 V which are sold exclusively for teaching purposes under adult supervision; - fireworks, including percussion caps which are not specifically designed for toys; - products intended for use for educational purposes in schools and other pedagogical contexts under the surveillance of an adult instructor, such as science equipment; - electronic equipment, such as personal computers and game consoles, used to access interactive software and their associated peripherals, unless the electronic equipment or the associated peripherals are specifically designed for and targeted at children and have a play value on their own, such as specially designed personal computers, key boards, joy sticks or steering wheels; - interactive software, intended for leisure and entertainment, such as computer games, and their storage media, such as CDs; - child-appealing luminaries; - fashion accessories for children which are not for use in play; - babies soothers; - personal protective equipment including swimming goggles, sunglasses and other eye protectors as well as bicycle and skateboard helmets; products for collectors, provided that the product or its packaging bears a visible and legible indication that it is intended for collectors of 14 years of age and above. EXAMPLES of this category are - detailed and faithful scale models, - kits for the assembly of detailed scale models, - folk dolls and decorative dolls and other similar articles, - historical replicas of toys, and - reproductions of real firearms.