Oct 12, 2026Certification Guides
Amazon Electric Toys: EN 71, EN IEC 62115 and the Documents Behind a Compliant Listing
What Amazon asks toy sellers for, which EN 71 parts and EN IEC 62115 apply to electric toys, and how test reports support EU compliance documents.
Listing an electric toy on Amazon in Europe is also placing a regulated product on the EU market. Before an offer goes live, the seller has to show that the toy meets EU toy safety rules — and for a toy with a battery, motor, light or sound circuit, that means more than one standard. This article covers which standards apply, what Amazon asks for, and how test reports support the documents behind a compliant listing.
What Amazon Actually Asks For
Amazon treats toys as a regulated category. Its public seller guidance requires safety documentation before listing and names the core items: CE marking, a Declaration of Conformity, and test reports from a laboratory where the category requires them. UK listings currently accept either UKCA or CE marking. For EU marketplaces, Amazon directs sellers to Marketplace Product Guidance and category-specific compliance requests in Seller Central, which show what a specific product needs in a specific marketplace; these requests differ by product type and can change over time. Because Amazon's compliance categories also cover electrical products, an electric toy may see electronics-related requests alongside toy ones.
This is why the shorthand "Amazon requires EN 71-1/2/3 for electric toys" is directionally right but needs nuance. Amazon does not maintain one universal standard list for every toy; it asks for documents demonstrating that a product complies with the rules that apply to it. For toys sold in the EU, those rules come from the Toy Safety Directive, and in practice an electric toy's dossier combines the relevant EN 71 parts with the electric toy standard, EN IEC 62115.
The EN 71 Parts Behind a Toy Listing
EN 71 is a series of European toy safety standards. Three parts appear in most general toy dossiers.
EN 71-1 — Mechanical and physical properties. This part examines how the toy is built: sharp edges and points, small parts that can detach and be swallowed, cords and straps, hinges and folding mechanisms, stability, and similar physical hazards.
EN 71-2 — Flammability. This part deals with how toy materials behave when exposed to a flame, limiting how quickly fire could spread and setting requirements for the materials and toy types where ignition is a realistic risk.
EN 71-3 — Migration of certain elements. This is the chemical part: it limits how much of certain elements, lead and chromium VI among them, may migrate out of toy materials and become available to a child. Limit values differ by material category: dry, brittle, powder-like or pliable; liquid or sticky; and scraped-off material.
The series contains other parts for specific products, such as chemistry sets, finger paints or trampolines, so "EN 71-1/2/3" is a starting point rather than the whole series.
Electric Toys Need EN IEC 62115 as Well
An electric toy is a toy with at least one function that depends on electricity; the definition covers products designed or intended, whether or not exclusively, for use in play by children under 14. The standard for these products is EN IEC 62115, Electric toys — Safety. It applies to toys taking power from any source, including batteries, transformers, solar cells and inductive connections.
That division of labour matters: the EN 71 parts continue to cover the toy's mechanical and physical, flammability and chemical behaviour, while EN IEC 62115 covers the safety aspects that relate to the electrical function itself. The current European edition is EN IEC 62115:2020 with amendment A11:2020, whose scope was aligned with the Toy Safety Directive. That generation of the standard added warnings for toys using button or coin batteries and for ride-on toys, and updated battery accessibility requirements — relevant because batteries are a frequent focus of marketplace and authority scrutiny. Most electric toy projects therefore combine the EN 71 parts and EN IEC 62115 in one test plan on the same samples and age grading.
From Standards to the Document Set
The legal framework is the EU Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC, which sets essential safety requirements including electrical properties. Toys conforming to harmonised standards published in the Official Journal are presumed to meet the requirements those standards cover. That presumption is why a test report matters: it is the evidence behind the technical documentation and the EC Declaration of Conformity. The framework is also transitioning: Regulation (EU) 2025/2509, a new Toy Safety Regulation, is in force and applies from 1 August 2030, when it repeals and replaces the Directive; toys placed on the market before that date continue under the current rules.
The directive gives the manufacturer — in an Amazon context usually the supplier, with the seller as importer or distributor — a chain of duties: carry out a safety assessment; follow a conformity assessment route (self-verification against harmonised standards under internal production control, or EC-type examination through a notified body); keep technical documentation; sign the EC Declaration of Conformity; affix the CE marking with name, address and a traceability element; and supply instructions and warnings. Importers must verify this and hold a copy of the declaration.
Two consequences are easy to miss. First, the test report and the Declaration of Conformity are different documents: the report is evidence produced by a laboratory, while the declaration is a legal statement that only the manufacturer or importer can sign. Second, no report guarantees that a marketplace will approve a listing; that decision rests with the marketplace. What a report can do is make a compliance request answerable, if it matches the product, the market and the standard editions in force. Since December 2024, the General Product Safety Regulation adds traceability and responsible-person expectations for consumer products sold online in the EU, while toys keep their own duties under the toy rules.
Preparing a Test Request
Before requesting a quotation, assemble the material breakdown or bill of materials, including coatings, inks, plastics, and the battery or electrical assembly with its ratings; the intended age grade and the reasoning behind it; the marketplaces to be supplied; any existing reports or supplier declarations for unchanged materials; and production-consistent samples. Sample quantities are not fixed in advance: the laboratory confirms the exact numbers and material areas once the scope is agreed, because combining the EN 71 parts with EN IEC 62115 changes the sampling needs.
Where LCS Fits
LCS is an independent third-party testing laboratory established in Shenzhen in 2004. Its verified toy testing scope covers the EN 71 series, electric toy safety testing against IEC 62115, ASTM F963 including the F963-23 edition, and CPSIA phthalate testing by the CPSC method CPSC-CH-C1001-09.4. Toy testing sits within LCS's CNAS-accredited scopes; the laboratory's IECEE CBTL status applies to battery and IT/AV standards. LCS issues test reports; where a market requires a certificate, it is issued by the relevant certification body, and the Declaration of Conformity is signed by the manufacturer or importer. LCS's toy engineers confirm the applicable standard parts, sample quantities and document requirements for each project. The Toy Testing service page describes the laboratory's toy scope in more detail.
A Note for Sellers Listing in the US
US listings work from a different file. ASTM F963 is the mandatory toy safety specification there under the CPSIA, and its hazard coverage includes electrical and thermal energy. Children's products for age 12 or younger also require third-party testing and a Children's Product Certificate; products manufactured from 20 April 2024 are tested against the F963-23 edition. The frameworks are not interchangeable, so multi-market programmes normally map the shared tests and add market-specific ones.