{ "$schema": "https://www.conphora.com/schemas/regulation-page.json", "code": "GPSR", "locale": "en", "url": "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/gpsr/", "json": "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/gpsr.json", "summaryPdf": "https://www.conphora.com/regulations/gpsr/summary.pdf", "dateModified": "2026-09-09", "regulation": { "code": "GPSR", "name": "Regulation (EU) 2023/988 on general product safety", "shortName": "General Product Safety Regulation", "reference": "Regulation (EU) 2023/988", "celex": "32023R0988", "eurlex": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988", "actType": "Regulation", "category": "CE / Product Safety", "inForce": "2023-06-12", "appliesFrom": "2024-12-13", "changing": false, "video": "regulation-gpsr" }, "answer": "The General Product Safety Regulation requires every consumer product on the EU market to be safe and sets duties for manufacturers, importers, distributors, authorised representatives, fulfilment providers and online marketplaces. It has applied since 13 December 2024, replacing Directive 2001/95/EC; the emergency procedures added by Regulation (EU) 2024/2748 apply from 29 May 2026.", "description": "Guide to GPSR (Regulation EU 2023/988): who it applies to, key dates, core requirements and how to get your consumer products compliant.", "enforcedBy": "National market surveillance authorities (in Denmark, Erhvervsstyrelsen through its Markedsovervågning department, formerly Sikkerhedsstyrelsen) enforce the regulation with the powers of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, including document requests, inspections, orders to withdraw or recall, bans on making a product available and takedown orders to online marketplaces, backed by penalties set by each Member State that must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.", "keyDates": [ { "date": "2023-05-10", "label": "Regulation (EU) 2023/988 adopted by the European Parliament and the Council in Strasbourg", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · title and signature block after Art. 52" }, { "date": "2023-06-12", "label": "Entry into force, the twentieth day after publication in OJ L 135 of 23 May 2023", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 52" }, { "date": "2024-12-13", "label": "The regulation applies; Directives 2001/95/EC and 87/357/EEC are repealed with effect from this date", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 50 and Art. 52" }, { "date": "2024-12-13", "label": "Deadline for Member States to notify the Commission of their penalty rules; Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/3173 on the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System applies from the same day", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 44(3); https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R3173 · Art. 3" }, { "date": "2026-05-29", "label": "Amending Regulation (EU) 2024/2748 applies: new Chapter IIa on emergency procedures for crisis-relevant goods", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R2748 · Art. 7" } ], "amendedBy": [ { "reference": "Regulation (EU) 2024/2748", "celex": "32024R2748", "date": "2024-11-28", "summary": "Adopted on 9 October 2024, published in the Official Journal on 8 November 2024, in force from 28 November 2024 and applying from 29 May 2026, it replaces point (b) of the third subparagraph of Article 2(1), adds the definitions of crisis-relevant goods and internal market emergency mode (Article 3, points 29 and 30) and inserts Chapter IIa (Articles 8a to 8c) on the presumption of conformity and prioritised market surveillance during an internal market emergency mode activated under Regulation (EU) 2024/2747.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R2748 · Art. 5 and Art. 7; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02023R0988-20260529 · Art. 8a" } ], "scope": { "appliesTo": [ "Any item intended for consumers, or likely under reasonably foreseeable conditions to be used by consumers even if not intended for them, supplied with or without payment, including in the context of a service", "Products placed or made available on the EU market for which no specific Union safety law exists", "Products covered by specific Union safety law, for the risks that law does not cover", "New, used, repaired and reconditioned products", "Products offered online or by other distance sales when the offer is targeted at consumers in the Union" ], "derived": [ "Products intended for professional use that are likely, under reasonably foreseeable conditions, to be used by consumers even if not intended for them (Art. 3(1))", "Items supplied or made available in the context of a service, whether or not interconnected to other items (Art. 3(1))", "Products covered by Union harmonisation legislation, for the risks that legislation does not cover, with the Article 2(1) carve-outs from Chapters II, IIa, III Section 1, V, VII and IX to XI (Art. 2(1))", "Products offered online or by other distance sales that are targeted at consumers in the Union, which are deemed made available on the market (Art. 4)", "Products substantially modified by physical or digital means where the modification has an impact on safety, was not foreseen in the initial risk assessment, changes or creates a hazard or increases the risk, and was not made by consumers for their own use; the modifier is deemed the manufacturer (Art. 13(2) and 13(3))" ], "categories": [ { "id": "consumer-product", "label": "Consumer product not covered by specific EU safety legislation" }, { "id": "harmonised-product", "label": "Product covered by Union harmonisation legislation (for example CE-marked sectors)" }, { "id": "used-or-reconditioned", "label": "Used, repaired or reconditioned product sold to consumers" }, { "id": "to-be-repaired", "label": "Product sold to be repaired or reconditioned before use and clearly marked as such" }, { "id": "professional-product", "label": "Product intended for professional use only" }, { "id": "food-feed-medicines", "label": "Food, feed, or medicinal products for human or veterinary use" }, { "id": "plants-animals", "label": "Living plants and animals, GMOs, animal by-products or plant protection products" }, { "id": "transport-equipment", "label": "Ride-on or travel equipment directly operated by a transport service provider, or aircraft referred to in Article 2(3), point (d) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139" }, { "id": "antiques", "label": "Antiques such as collectors' items or works of art" } ], "roles": [ { "id": "manufacturer", "label": "Manufacturer (including brand owners)", "definition": "Any natural or legal person who manufactures a product or has a product designed or manufactured, and markets it under that person's name or trademark; anyone placing a product on the market under their own name or trademark, or substantially modifying it, is deemed a manufacturer.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 3(8) and Art. 13" }, { "id": "importer", "label": "Importer", "definition": "Any natural or legal person established within the Union who places a product from a third country on the Union market.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 3(10)" }, { "id": "distributor", "label": "Distributor (wholesaler or retailer)", "definition": "Any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes a product available on the market.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 3(11)" }, { "id": "other", "label": "Authorised representative", "definition": "Any natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on the manufacturer's behalf for specified tasks under the regulation.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 3(9)" }, { "id": "fulfilment-provider", "label": "Fulfilment service provider", "definition": "Any natural or legal person offering, in the course of commercial activity, at least two of warehousing, packaging, addressing and dispatching without owning the products, excluding postal, parcel delivery and freight transport services.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 3(12)" }, { "id": "online-marketplace", "label": "Provider of an online marketplace", "definition": "A provider of an intermediary service using an online interface which allows consumers to conclude distance contracts with traders for the sale of products.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 3(14)" } ], "rules": [ { "categories": [ "food-feed-medicines", "plants-animals", "transport-equipment", "antiques" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "out-of-scope", "note": "Article 2(2) excludes medicinal products, food, feed, living plants and animals, GMOs, animal by-products, plant protection products, equipment operated by a transport service provider, aircraft referred to in Article 2(3), point (d) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139, and antiques.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 2(2)" }, { "categories": [ "to-be-repaired" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "out-of-scope", "note": "Products to be repaired or reconditioned before use are outside the regulation only if they are clearly marked as such when placed or made available on the market.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 2(3)" }, { "categories": [ "harmonised-product" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "depends", "note": "Where Union harmonisation legislation sets specific safety requirements, the regulation applies only to the risks that legislation does not cover; Chapter II does not apply to the covered risks, and Chapter IIa, Chapter III Section 1 (Articles 9 to 18), Chapters V and VII and Chapters IX to XI do not apply. The distance-sales, accident, online marketplace and recall provisions still apply.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02023R0988-20260529 · Art. 2(1)" }, { "categories": [ "professional-product" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "depends", "note": "A product intended for professionals is still a product under the regulation if it is likely, under reasonably foreseeable conditions, to be used by consumers even if not intended for them.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 3(1)" }, { "categories": [ "consumer-product", "used-or-reconditioned" ], "roles": [ "manufacturer", "importer", "distributor", "other", "fulfilment-provider", "online-marketplace" ], "size": "any", "result": "in-scope", "note": "The regulation applies to products placed or made available on the market that are intended for consumers or likely, under reasonably foreseeable conditions, to be used by consumers, whether new, used, repaired or reconditioned, insofar as no specific Union law regulates their safety; the obligations fall on the economic operators and online marketplaces in the chain and contain no company-size threshold.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 2(1), Art. 2(3) and Art. 3(1)" }, { "categories": [ "*" ], "roles": [ "*" ], "size": "any", "result": "depends", "note": "Whether the regulation applies turns on whether the item is intended for or likely to be used by consumers, whether specific Union safety law covers the risk, and whether one of the Article 2(2) exclusions applies.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 2(1) and Art. 3(1)" } ] }, "obligations": { "manufacturer": [ { "text": "Place on the market only products designed and manufactured in accordance with the general safety requirement.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-place-market-products", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 5 and Art. 9(1)" }, { "text": "Before placing a product on the market, carry out an internal risk analysis and draw up technical documentation with at least a general description of the product and its safety-relevant characteristics; where risks warrant it, add the risk analysis, the solutions adopted and the standards or other elements applied.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-carry-out-internal", "kind": "procedure", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "risk-analysis", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 9(2)" }, { "text": "Keep the technical documentation up to date and at the disposal of market surveillance authorities for 10 years after the product was placed on the market, and keep procedures in place so series production stays in conformity.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-keep-technical-documentation", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 9(3) and Art. 9(4)" }, { "text": "Keep the technical documentation up to date and at the disposal of the market surveillance authorities for 10 years after the product was placed on the market.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-keep-documentation-years", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 9(3)" }, { "text": "Keep procedures in place so that series production stays in conformity with the general safety requirement.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-series-conformity-procedures", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 9(4)" }, { "text": "Mark the product with a type, batch or serial number or other identifier that is easily visible and legible for consumers, and with your name, registered trade name or trade mark, postal and electronic address and, where different, the single contact point; if the product does not allow it, put the information on the packaging or in an accompanying document.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-mark-product-type", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "identification-and-address", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 9(5) and Art. 9(6)" }, { "text": "Supply clear instructions and safety information in a language easily understood by consumers, as determined by the Member State where the product is made available, unless the product can be used safely and as intended without them.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-supply-clear-instructions", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "instructions-and-safety-information", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 9(7)" }, { "text": "If you consider or have reason to believe a product you placed on the market is dangerous, immediately take corrective measures including withdrawal or recall, inform consumers and notify the market surveillance authorities of every Member State concerned through the Safety Business Gateway, giving details of the risk, the measures taken and, if available, the quantity still on the market.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-immediately-take-corrective", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 9(8)" }, { "text": "Keep other economic operators, responsible persons and online marketplaces in your supply chain informed in a timely manner of any safety issue you identify.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-keep-other-economic", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 9(10)" }, { "text": "Make public, accessible complaint channels available (telephone, electronic address or website section), investigate complaints and accident information, and keep an internal register of complaints, recalls and corrective measures; personal data in the register may be kept no longer than five years.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-make-public-accessible", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 9(11), Art. 9(12) and Art. 9(13)" }, { "text": "Notify through the Safety Business Gateway, without undue delay after learning of it, any accident caused by the product that resulted in death or serious adverse effects on health and safety, to the competent authorities of the Member State where it occurred, with the product type, identification number and circumstances.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-notify-through-safety", "kind": "submission", "level": "product-market", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 20(1) and Art. 20(2)" }, { "text": "When selling online or at a distance, show in the offer the manufacturer's name and postal and electronic address, the responsible person's details if the manufacturer is outside the EU, product identification including a picture and type, and any warnings or safety information in the language determined by the Member State.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-show-offer-manufacturers", "kind": "data", "level": "product-market", "timing": "at-listing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 19" }, { "text": "In a recall, notify affected consumers directly, use a recall notice headed Product safety recall with the prescribed content, and offer at least two of repair, replacement or a refund of at least the price paid, free of charge and without significant inconvenience.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-notify-affected-consumers", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 35, Art. 36 and Art. 37" }, { "text": "If established outside the EU, do not place products on the market without an economic operator established in the Union responsible for the product; the responsible person's name and contact details must appear on the product, packaging, parcel or an accompanying document.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-place-products-market", "kind": "decision", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 16(1) and Art. 16(3)" }, { "text": "If you are established outside the EU, do not place products on the market unless an economic operator established in the Union is responsible for them.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-ensure-eu-responsible-person", "kind": "decision", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 16(1)" }, { "text": "Make sure the responsible person's name and contact details appear on the product, its packaging, the parcel or an accompanying document.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-show-responsible-person", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 16(3)" }, { "text": "Cooperate with market surveillance authorities and be able to provide the risk description, complaints, accidents and corrective measures for 10 years, and supply-chain traceability (who supplied you, whom you supplied) for six years.", "id": "gpsr-mfr-cooperate-market-surveillance", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 15" } ], "importer": [ { "text": "Before placing a product on the market, ensure it complies with the general safety requirement and that the manufacturer has drawn up technical documentation and applied the identification and address markings; do not place a non-conforming product on the market, and if it is dangerous inform the manufacturer and the authorities through the Safety Business Gateway.", "id": "gpsr-imp-ensure-complies-general", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 11(1) and Art. 11(2)" }, { "text": "Add your name, registered trade name or trade mark, postal and electronic address and, where different, the single contact point on the product, its packaging or an accompanying document, without obscuring the manufacturer's information.", "id": "gpsr-imp-add-name-registered", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "identification-and-address", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 11(3)" }, { "text": "Ensure the product is accompanied by clear instructions and safety information in the language determined by the Member State where it is made available.", "id": "gpsr-imp-ensure-product-accompanied", "kind": "verification", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "instructions-and-safety-information", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 11(4)" }, { "text": "Keep storage and transport conditions from jeopardising conformity, and keep a copy of the technical documentation at the disposal of the authorities for 10 years after placing the product on the market.", "id": "gpsr-imp-keep-storage-transport", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 11(5) and Art. 11(6)" }, { "text": "While a product is under your responsibility, keep storage and transport conditions from jeopardising its conformity with the general safety requirement and the marking and instruction requirements.", "id": "gpsr-imp-ensure-storage-transport", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 11(5)" }, { "text": "Keep a copy of the technical documentation at the disposal of the market surveillance authorities for 10 years after placing the product on the market.", "id": "gpsr-imp-keep-documentation-copy", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 11(6)" }, { "text": "If you consider or have reason to believe a product you placed on the market is dangerous, immediately inform the manufacturer, ensure corrective measures including withdrawal or recall are taken (or take them yourself), inform consumers and notify the authorities of the Member States concerned through the Safety Business Gateway.", "id": "gpsr-imp-immediately-inform-manufacturer", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 11(8)" }, { "text": "Verify that the manufacturer's complaint channels are publicly available and provide them yourself if not; investigate complaints and accident information, record them in the register, and keep the manufacturer, distributors, fulfilment service providers and marketplaces informed of the investigation and its results.", "id": "gpsr-imp-verify-manufacturers-complaint", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 11(9) and Art. 11(10)" }, { "text": "Inform the manufacturer without undue delay of any accident you learn of that was caused by a product you placed on the market, and make the Safety Business Gateway notification yourself if the manufacturer instructs you to.", "id": "gpsr-imp-inform-manufacturer-undue", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 20(3)" }, { "text": "Where the manufacturer is not established in the Union, act as the responsible person: regularly check that the product matches its technical documentation and carries the required markings and instructions, keep documented evidence of those checks for the authorities, and show your name and contact details on the product, packaging, parcel or an accompanying document.", "id": "gpsr-imp-act-responsible-person", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 16" }, { "text": "When selling online or at a distance, show the Article 19 information in the offer, and cooperate with the authorities with 10-year risk records and six-year traceability records.", "id": "gpsr-imp-show-article-information", "kind": "data", "level": "product-market", "timing": "at-listing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 15 and Art. 19" }, { "text": "When offering a product online or at a distance, show in the offer the manufacturer's name and address, the importer's or responsible person's name and address where the manufacturer is outside the Union, the product's identification and any warning or safety information (Art. 19).", "id": "gpsr-imp-show-offer-information", "kind": "data", "level": "product-market", "timing": "at-listing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 19" }, { "text": "Cooperate with the market surveillance authorities on reasoned request: keep the records of the product's risks and corrective actions for 10 years and the traceability records of your suppliers and customers for six years, and provide them in a language the authority can easily understand (Art. 15).", "id": "gpsr-imp-cooperate-authorities-records", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 15" } ], "distributor": [ { "text": "Before making a product available, verify that the manufacturer and, where applicable, the importer have applied the identification, name and address markings and supplied instructions and safety information.", "id": "gpsr-dist-verify-manufacturer-applicable", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 12(1)" }, { "text": "Keep storage and transport conditions from jeopardising the product's conformity with the general safety requirement and the marking and instruction requirements.", "id": "gpsr-dist-keep-storage-transport", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 12(2)" }, { "text": "Do not make a product available if you consider or have reason to believe it is not in conformity with the general safety requirement or the marking and instruction requirements, until it has been brought into conformity.", "id": "gpsr-dist-make-product-available", "kind": "decision", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 12(3)" }, { "text": "If a product you made available is dangerous or non-conforming, immediately inform the manufacturer or importer, ensure corrective measures including withdrawal or recall are taken, and ensure the authorities of the Member States concerned are immediately informed through the Safety Business Gateway with details of the risk, the number of products and the measures taken.", "id": "gpsr-dist-immediately-inform-manufacturer", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 12(4)" }, { "text": "Inform the manufacturer without undue delay of any accident you learn of that was caused by a product you made available, and make the notification yourself if the manufacturer instructs you to.", "id": "gpsr-dist-inform-manufacturer-undue", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 20(3)" }, { "text": "When selling online or at a distance, show in the offer the manufacturer's name and addresses, the responsible person's details for non-EU manufacturers, product identification with a picture, and warnings and safety information in the required language.", "id": "gpsr-dist-show-offer-manufacturers", "kind": "data", "level": "product-market", "timing": "at-listing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 19" }, { "text": "Cooperate with market surveillance authorities and be able to identify who supplied you and whom you supplied for six years, and the risk, complaint and corrective-measure information for 10 years.", "id": "gpsr-dist-cooperate-market-surveillance", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 15" } ], "other": [ { "text": "Act under a written mandate from the manufacturer and provide a copy of it to market surveillance authorities on request.", "id": "gpsr-oth-act-written-mandate", "kind": "evidence", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 10(1) and Art. 10(2)" }, { "text": "On an authority's reasoned request, provide all information and documentation needed to demonstrate the product's safety in an official language that authority understands.", "id": "gpsr-oth-provide-information-documentation", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 10(2)(a)" }, { "text": "Inform the manufacturer when you consider or have reason to believe a product is dangerous, and notify the competent national authorities through the Safety Business Gateway of any action taken to eliminate the risks where the manufacturer has not already done so.", "id": "gpsr-oth-inform-manufacturer-consider", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 10(2)(b) and Art. 10(2)(c)" }, { "text": "Cooperate with the competent national authorities, at their request, on any action taken to eliminate the risks posed by the products covered by the mandate.", "id": "gpsr-oth-cooperate-competent-national", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 10(2)(d)" }, { "text": "Where mandated, serve as the responsible person for a non-EU manufacturer: regularly check the product against its technical documentation and the marking and instruction requirements, keep documented evidence of the checks, and appear with name and contact details on the product, packaging, parcel or an accompanying document.", "id": "gpsr-oth-serve-responsible-person", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 16" } ], "fulfilment-provider": [ { "text": "As an economic operator, place or make available on the market only safe products and keep internal processes for product safety in place.", "id": "gpsr-ffp-economic-operator-place", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 3(13), Art. 5 and Art. 14" }, { "text": "Cooperate with market surveillance authorities: on request, describe the risk, complaints, accidents and corrective measures, and identify who supplied you and whom you supplied; keep that information available for 10 and six years respectively.", "id": "gpsr-ffp-cooperate-market-surveillance", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 15" }, { "text": "If established in the Union and no manufacturer, importer or authorised representative in the Union exists for the products you handle, you are the responsible person for them: check technical documentation and markings regularly, keep evidence of the checks, inform the authorities of risks, cooperate on corrective action and show your name and contact details with the product.", "id": "gpsr-ffp-importer-authorised-representative", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 4(2)(d) and Art. 4(3); https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 16(2) and Art. 16(3)" }, { "text": "If you are established in the Union and no manufacturer, importer or authorised representative in the Union exists for the products you handle, you are the responsible person for them.", "id": "gpsr-ffp-responsible-person-status", "kind": "status", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 4(2)(d)" }, { "text": "As the responsible person, regularly check the product against its technical documentation and the marking and instruction requirements, keep evidence of the checks, inform the authorities of risks, cooperate on corrective action and show your name and contact details with the product.", "id": "gpsr-ffp-serve-responsible-person", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 4(3); https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 16(2) and Art. 16(3)" } ], "online-marketplace": [ { "text": "Designate a single point of contact for direct electronic communication with market surveillance authorities on product safety, register with the Safety Gate Portal and publish the contact point there.", "id": "gpsr-omp-designate-single-point", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 22(1)" }, { "text": "Designate a single point of contact enabling consumers to communicate directly and rapidly with you on product safety issues, and keep internal processes for product safety in place.", "id": "gpsr-omp-designate-single-point-2", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 22(2) and Art. 22(3)" }, { "text": "Designate a single point of contact enabling consumers to communicate directly and rapidly with you on product safety issues.", "id": "gpsr-omp-designate-consumer-contact", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 22(2)" }, { "text": "Keep internal processes for product safety in place that let you comply with the regulation's requirements for online marketplaces.", "id": "gpsr-omp-keep-internal-safety-processes", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 22(3)" }, { "text": "Act on an authority's order to remove a dangerous-product listing, disable access to it or display an explicit warning without undue delay and in any event within two working days, and report the effect given to the issuing authority.", "id": "gpsr-omp-act-authoritys-order", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product-market", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 22(4)" }, { "text": "Process product safety notices received under Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 without undue delay and in any event within three working days.", "id": "gpsr-omp-process-product-safety", "kind": "procedure", "level": "company", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 22(8)" }, { "text": "Use the Safety Gate Portal notifications for voluntary detection and removal of dangerous-product offers, and rely on it at least for the Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 checks against official databases.", "id": "gpsr-omp-use-safety-gate", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 22(6) and Art. 22(7)" }, { "text": "Design the online interface so traders can provide, and consumers see on the listing, the manufacturer's name and addresses, the responsible person for non-EU manufacturers, product identification with a picture and type, and any warnings or safety information; enable traders to self-certify that they offer only compliant products.", "id": "gpsr-omp-design-online-interface", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 22(9) and Art. 22(10)" }, { "text": "Suspend, after a prior warning and for a reasonable period, traders that frequently offer products which do not comply with the regulation.", "id": "gpsr-omp-suspend-prior-warning", "kind": "decision", "level": "company", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 22(11)" }, { "text": "Cooperate on recalls and dangerous products: notify affected buyers directly of recalls and safety warnings, publish recall information on the interface, inform the trader of removed listings, notify through the Safety Business Gateway dangerous products and any accident you are informed of that resulted in a serious risk or actual damage to a consumer's health or safety, give authorities' tools access to the interface and allow data scraping for product safety on reasoned request.", "id": "gpsr-omp-cooperate-recalls-dangerous", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "retired": "2026-09-24", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 22(12)" }, { "text": "Notify affected buyers directly of recalls and safety warnings for products bought through your marketplace, publish the recall information on your interface and inform the trader concerned when you remove a listing.", "id": "gpsr-omp-notify-buyers-recalls", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product-market", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 22(12)" }, { "text": "Notify through the Safety Business Gateway the dangerous products offered on your marketplace that you become aware of, and any accident you are informed of that resulted in a serious risk or actual damage to a consumer's health or safety.", "id": "gpsr-omp-notify-dangerous-products", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 22(12)" }, { "text": "On a reasoned request, cooperate with the market surveillance authorities by giving their tools access to your interface and allowing data scraping for product safety purposes.", "id": "gpsr-omp-give-authorities-access", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 22(12)" } ] }, "requirements": [ { "id": "gpsr-mfr-place-market-products", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Place on the market only products designed and manufactured in accordance with the general safety requirement.", "article": "Art. 5 and Art. 9(1)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-carry-out-internal", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "procedure", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "risk-analysis", "text": "Before placing a product on the market, carry out an internal risk analysis and draw up technical documentation with at least a general description of the product and its safety-relevant characteristics; where risks warrant it, add the risk analysis, the solutions adopted and the standards or other elements applied.", "article": "Art. 9(2)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-keep-technical-documentation", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Keep the technical documentation up to date and at the disposal of market surveillance authorities for 10 years after the product was placed on the market, and keep procedures in place so series production stays in conformity.", "article": "Art. 9(3) and Art. 9(4)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-keep-documentation-years", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "text": "Keep the technical documentation up to date and at the disposal of the market surveillance authorities for 10 years after the product was placed on the market.", "article": "Art. 9(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-series-conformity-procedures", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Keep procedures in place so that series production stays in conformity with the general safety requirement.", "article": "Art. 9(4)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-mark-product-type", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "identification-and-address", "text": "Mark the product with a type, batch or serial number or other identifier that is easily visible and legible for consumers, and with your name, registered trade name or trade mark, postal and electronic address and, where different, the single contact point; if the product does not allow it, put the information on the packaging or in an accompanying document.", "article": "Art. 9(5) and Art. 9(6)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-supply-clear-instructions", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "instructions-and-safety-information", "text": "Supply clear instructions and safety information in a language easily understood by consumers, as determined by the Member State where the product is made available, unless the product can be used safely and as intended without them.", "article": "Art. 9(7)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-immediately-take-corrective", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "If you consider or have reason to believe a product you placed on the market is dangerous, immediately take corrective measures including withdrawal or recall, inform consumers and notify the market surveillance authorities of every Member State concerned through the Safety Business Gateway, giving details of the risk, the measures taken and, if available, the quantity still on the market.", "article": "Art. 9(8)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-keep-other-economic", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Keep other economic operators, responsible persons and online marketplaces in your supply chain informed in a timely manner of any safety issue you identify.", "article": "Art. 9(10)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-make-public-accessible", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Make public, accessible complaint channels available (telephone, electronic address or website section), investigate complaints and accident information, and keep an internal register of complaints, recalls and corrective measures; personal data in the register may be kept no longer than five years.", "article": "Art. 9(11), Art. 9(12) and Art. 9(13)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-notify-through-safety", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "submission", "level": "product-market", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Notify through the Safety Business Gateway, without undue delay after learning of it, any accident caused by the product that resulted in death or serious adverse effects on health and safety, to the competent authorities of the Member State where it occurred, with the product type, identification number and circumstances.", "article": "Art. 20(1) and Art. 20(2)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-show-offer-manufacturers", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "data", "level": "product-market", "timing": "at-listing", "text": "When selling online or at a distance, show in the offer the manufacturer's name and postal and electronic address, the responsible person's details if the manufacturer is outside the EU, product identification including a picture and type, and any warnings or safety information in the language determined by the Member State.", "article": "Art. 19", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-notify-affected-consumers", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "In a recall, notify affected consumers directly, use a recall notice headed Product safety recall with the prescribed content, and offer at least two of repair, replacement or a refund of at least the price paid, free of charge and without significant inconvenience.", "article": "Art. 35, Art. 36 and Art. 37", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-place-products-market", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "decision", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "If established outside the EU, do not place products on the market without an economic operator established in the Union responsible for the product; the responsible person's name and contact details must appear on the product, packaging, parcel or an accompanying document.", "article": "Art. 16(1) and Art. 16(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-ensure-eu-responsible-person", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "decision", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "text": "If you are established outside the EU, do not place products on the market unless an economic operator established in the Union is responsible for them.", "article": "Art. 16(1)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-show-responsible-person", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Make sure the responsible person's name and contact details appear on the product, its packaging, the parcel or an accompanying document.", "article": "Art. 16(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-mfr-cooperate-market-surveillance", "role": "manufacturer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "text": "Cooperate with market surveillance authorities and be able to provide the risk description, complaints, accidents and corrective measures for 10 years, and supply-chain traceability (who supplied you, whom you supplied) for six years.", "article": "Art. 15", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-imp-ensure-complies-general", "role": "importer", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Before placing a product on the market, ensure it complies with the general safety requirement and that the manufacturer has drawn up technical documentation and applied the identification and address markings; do not place a non-conforming product on the market, and if it is dangerous inform the manufacturer and the authorities through the Safety Business Gateway.", "article": "Art. 11(1) and Art. 11(2)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-imp-add-name-registered", "role": "importer", "kind": "mark", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "identification-and-address", "text": "Add your name, registered trade name or trade mark, postal and electronic address and, where different, the single contact point on the product, its packaging or an accompanying document, without obscuring the manufacturer's information.", "article": "Art. 11(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-imp-ensure-product-accompanied", "role": "importer", "kind": "verification", "level": "product-market", "timing": "before-market", "sharedKey": "instructions-and-safety-information", "text": "Ensure the product is accompanied by clear instructions and safety information in the language determined by the Member State where it is made available.", "article": "Art. 11(4)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-imp-keep-storage-transport", "role": "importer", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Keep storage and transport conditions from jeopardising conformity, and keep a copy of the technical documentation at the disposal of the authorities for 10 years after placing the product on the market.", "article": "Art. 11(5) and Art. 11(6)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-imp-ensure-storage-transport", "role": "importer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "While a product is under your responsibility, keep storage and transport conditions from jeopardising its conformity with the general safety requirement and the marking and instruction requirements.", "article": "Art. 11(5)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-imp-keep-documentation-copy", "role": "importer", "kind": "standing", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "record-keeping-10y", "text": "Keep a copy of the technical documentation at the disposal of the market surveillance authorities for 10 years after placing the product on the market.", "article": "Art. 11(6)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-imp-immediately-inform-manufacturer", "role": "importer", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "If you consider or have reason to believe a product you placed on the market is dangerous, immediately inform the manufacturer, ensure corrective measures including withdrawal or recall are taken (or take them yourself), inform consumers and notify the authorities of the Member States concerned through the Safety Business Gateway.", "article": "Art. 11(8)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-imp-verify-manufacturers-complaint", "role": "importer", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Verify that the manufacturer's complaint channels are publicly available and provide them yourself if not; investigate complaints and accident information, record them in the register, and keep the manufacturer, distributors, fulfilment service providers and marketplaces informed of the investigation and its results.", "article": "Art. 11(9) and Art. 11(10)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-imp-inform-manufacturer-undue", "role": "importer", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Inform the manufacturer without undue delay of any accident you learn of that was caused by a product you placed on the market, and make the Safety Business Gateway notification yourself if the manufacturer instructs you to.", "article": "Art. 20(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-imp-act-responsible-person", "role": "importer", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Where the manufacturer is not established in the Union, act as the responsible person: regularly check that the product matches its technical documentation and carries the required markings and instructions, keep documented evidence of those checks for the authorities, and show your name and contact details on the product, packaging, parcel or an accompanying document.", "article": "Art. 16", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-imp-show-article-information", "role": "importer", "kind": "data", "level": "product-market", "timing": "at-listing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "When selling online or at a distance, show the Article 19 information in the offer, and cooperate with the authorities with 10-year risk records and six-year traceability records.", "article": "Art. 15 and Art. 19", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-imp-show-offer-information", "role": "importer", "kind": "data", "level": "product-market", "timing": "at-listing", "text": "When offering a product online or at a distance, show in the offer the manufacturer's name and address, the importer's or responsible person's name and address where the manufacturer is outside the Union, the product's identification and any warning or safety information (Art. 19).", "article": "Art. 19", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-imp-cooperate-authorities-records", "role": "importer", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "text": "Cooperate with the market surveillance authorities on reasoned request: keep the records of the product's risks and corrective actions for 10 years and the traceability records of your suppliers and customers for six years, and provide them in a language the authority can easily understand (Art. 15).", "article": "Art. 15", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-dist-verify-manufacturer-applicable", "role": "distributor", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Before making a product available, verify that the manufacturer and, where applicable, the importer have applied the identification, name and address markings and supplied instructions and safety information.", "article": "Art. 12(1)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-dist-keep-storage-transport", "role": "distributor", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Keep storage and transport conditions from jeopardising the product's conformity with the general safety requirement and the marking and instruction requirements.", "article": "Art. 12(2)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-dist-make-product-available", "role": "distributor", "kind": "decision", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Do not make a product available if you consider or have reason to believe it is not in conformity with the general safety requirement or the marking and instruction requirements, until it has been brought into conformity.", "article": "Art. 12(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-dist-immediately-inform-manufacturer", "role": "distributor", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "If a product you made available is dangerous or non-conforming, immediately inform the manufacturer or importer, ensure corrective measures including withdrawal or recall are taken, and ensure the authorities of the Member States concerned are immediately informed through the Safety Business Gateway with details of the risk, the number of products and the measures taken.", "article": "Art. 12(4)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-dist-inform-manufacturer-undue", "role": "distributor", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Inform the manufacturer without undue delay of any accident you learn of that was caused by a product you made available, and make the notification yourself if the manufacturer instructs you to.", "article": "Art. 20(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-dist-show-offer-manufacturers", "role": "distributor", "kind": "data", "level": "product-market", "timing": "at-listing", "text": "When selling online or at a distance, show in the offer the manufacturer's name and addresses, the responsible person's details for non-EU manufacturers, product identification with a picture, and warnings and safety information in the required language.", "article": "Art. 19", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-dist-cooperate-market-surveillance", "role": "distributor", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "text": "Cooperate with market surveillance authorities and be able to identify who supplied you and whom you supplied for six years, and the risk, complaint and corrective-measure information for 10 years.", "article": "Art. 15", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-oth-act-written-mandate", "role": "other", "kind": "evidence", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Act under a written mandate from the manufacturer and provide a copy of it to market surveillance authorities on request.", "article": "Art. 10(1) and Art. 10(2)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-oth-provide-information-documentation", "role": "other", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "text": "On an authority's reasoned request, provide all information and documentation needed to demonstrate the product's safety in an official language that authority understands.", "article": "Art. 10(2)(a)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-oth-inform-manufacturer-consider", "role": "other", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Inform the manufacturer when you consider or have reason to believe a product is dangerous, and notify the competent national authorities through the Safety Business Gateway of any action taken to eliminate the risks where the manufacturer has not already done so.", "article": "Art. 10(2)(b) and Art. 10(2)(c)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-oth-cooperate-competent-national", "role": "other", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "text": "Cooperate with the competent national authorities, at their request, on any action taken to eliminate the risks posed by the products covered by the mandate.", "article": "Art. 10(2)(d)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-oth-serve-responsible-person", "role": "other", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Where mandated, serve as the responsible person for a non-EU manufacturer: regularly check the product against its technical documentation and the marking and instruction requirements, keep documented evidence of the checks, and appear with name and contact details on the product, packaging, parcel or an accompanying document.", "article": "Art. 16", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-ffp-economic-operator-place", "role": "fulfilment-provider", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "As an economic operator, place or make available on the market only safe products and keep internal processes for product safety in place.", "article": "Art. 3(13), Art. 5 and Art. 14", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-ffp-cooperate-market-surveillance", "role": "fulfilment-provider", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "text": "Cooperate with market surveillance authorities: on request, describe the risk, complaints, accidents and corrective measures, and identify who supplied you and whom you supplied; keep that information available for 10 and six years respectively.", "article": "Art. 15", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-ffp-importer-authorised-representative", "role": "fulfilment-provider", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "If established in the Union and no manufacturer, importer or authorised representative in the Union exists for the products you handle, you are the responsible person for them: check technical documentation and markings regularly, keep evidence of the checks, inform the authorities of risks, cooperate on corrective action and show your name and contact details with the product.", "article": "Art. 4(2)(d) and Art. 4(3); https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 16(2) and Art. 16(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020" }, { "id": "gpsr-ffp-responsible-person-status", "role": "fulfilment-provider", "kind": "status", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "text": "If you are established in the Union and no manufacturer, importer or authorised representative in the Union exists for the products you handle, you are the responsible person for them.", "article": "Art. 4(2)(d)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020" }, { "id": "gpsr-ffp-serve-responsible-person", "role": "fulfilment-provider", "kind": "verification", "level": "product", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "As the responsible person, regularly check the product against its technical documentation and the marking and instruction requirements, keep evidence of the checks, inform the authorities of risks, cooperate on corrective action and show your name and contact details with the product.", "article": "Art. 4(3); https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 16(2) and Art. 16(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020" }, { "id": "gpsr-omp-designate-single-point", "role": "online-marketplace", "kind": "submission", "level": "company", "timing": "before-market", "text": "Designate a single point of contact for direct electronic communication with market surveillance authorities on product safety, register with the Safety Gate Portal and publish the contact point there.", "article": "Art. 22(1)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-omp-designate-single-point-2", "role": "online-marketplace", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Designate a single point of contact enabling consumers to communicate directly and rapidly with you on product safety issues, and keep internal processes for product safety in place.", "article": "Art. 22(2) and Art. 22(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-omp-designate-consumer-contact", "role": "online-marketplace", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Designate a single point of contact enabling consumers to communicate directly and rapidly with you on product safety issues.", "article": "Art. 22(2)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-omp-keep-internal-safety-processes", "role": "online-marketplace", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Keep internal processes for product safety in place that let you comply with the regulation's requirements for online marketplaces.", "article": "Art. 22(3)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-omp-act-authoritys-order", "role": "online-marketplace", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product-market", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Act on an authority's order to remove a dangerous-product listing, disable access to it or display an explicit warning without undue delay and in any event within two working days, and report the effect given to the issuing authority.", "article": "Art. 22(4)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-omp-process-product-safety", "role": "online-marketplace", "kind": "procedure", "level": "company", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Process product safety notices received under Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 without undue delay and in any event within three working days.", "article": "Art. 22(8)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-omp-use-safety-gate", "role": "online-marketplace", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Use the Safety Gate Portal notifications for voluntary detection and removal of dangerous-product offers, and rely on it at least for the Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 checks against official databases.", "article": "Art. 22(6) and Art. 22(7)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-omp-design-online-interface", "role": "online-marketplace", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "text": "Design the online interface so traders can provide, and consumers see on the listing, the manufacturer's name and addresses, the responsible person for non-EU manufacturers, product identification with a picture and type, and any warnings or safety information; enable traders to self-certify that they offer only compliant products.", "article": "Art. 22(9) and Art. 22(10)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-omp-suspend-prior-warning", "role": "online-marketplace", "kind": "decision", "level": "company", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Suspend, after a prior warning and for a reasonable period, traders that frequently offer products which do not comply with the regulation.", "article": "Art. 22(11)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-omp-cooperate-recalls-dangerous", "role": "online-marketplace", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "retired": "2026-09-24", "text": "Cooperate on recalls and dangerous products: notify affected buyers directly of recalls and safety warnings, publish recall information on the interface, inform the trader of removed listings, notify through the Safety Business Gateway dangerous products and any accident you are informed of that resulted in a serious risk or actual damage to a consumer's health or safety, give authorities' tools access to the interface and allow data scraping for product safety on reasoned request.", "article": "Art. 22(12)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-omp-notify-buyers-recalls", "role": "online-marketplace", "kind": "evidence", "level": "product-market", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Notify affected buyers directly of recalls and safety warnings for products bought through your marketplace, publish the recall information on your interface and inform the trader concerned when you remove a listing.", "article": "Art. 22(12)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-omp-notify-dangerous-products", "role": "online-marketplace", "kind": "submission", "level": "product", "timing": "on-event", "text": "Notify through the Safety Business Gateway the dangerous products offered on your marketplace that you become aware of, and any accident you are informed of that resulted in a serious risk or actual damage to a consumer's health or safety.", "article": "Art. 22(12)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "id": "gpsr-omp-give-authorities-access", "role": "online-marketplace", "kind": "standing", "level": "company", "timing": "ongoing", "sharedKey": "authority-cooperation", "text": "On a reasoned request, cooperate with the market surveillance authorities by giving their tools access to your interface and allowing data scraping for product safety purposes.", "article": "Art. 22(12)", "sourceUrl": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" } ], "requirementsHash": "ad27eefc783f89c2", "penalties": { "text": "Member States lay down the rules on penalties for infringements by economic operators and online marketplaces; the penalties must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive, and the rules had to be notified to the Commission by 13 December 2024. Market surveillance authorities apply the powers of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, which include requiring documents and supply-chain information, unannounced inspections, ordering corrective action, prohibiting or restricting the making available of a product, ordering withdrawal or recall, taking samples under a cover identity, and, where no other effective means are available to eliminate a serious risk, requiring the removal of content referring to the product from an online interface or the explicit display of a warning to end users, and, if that is not complied with, requiring information society service providers to restrict access to the online interface; under GPSR they can also order providers of online marketplaces to remove content referring to an offer of a dangerous product, disable access to it or display an explicit warning, to be executed within two working days. In Denmark, Erhvervsstyrelsen (Markedsovervågning, formerly Sikkerhedsstyrelsen) has been the market surveillance authority for general product safety since January 2026.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 44, Art. 23(1) and Art. 22(4); https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 14(4); https://www.sik.dk/sikkerhedsstyrelsen-del-erhvervsstyrelsen" }, "checklist": [ "Sort every product into GPSR-only, harmonised-plus-GPSR or excluded using Article 2, and record the decision.", "Decide your role for each product, remembering that selling under your own brand or substantially modifying a product makes you the manufacturer (Article 13).", "Carry out the internal risk analysis and draw up the technical documentation before placing the product on the market; plan to keep it for 10 years (Article 9(2) and (3)).", "Mark each product, or its packaging or accompanying document, with a type, batch or serial number and the manufacturer's and importer's name, postal and electronic address (Articles 9(5), 9(6) and 11(3)).", "Provide instructions and safety information in the language each Member State requires (Articles 9(7) and 11(4)).", "Appoint and label an EU responsible person for every product whose manufacturer is outside the Union (Article 16).", "Update every online and distance-sales listing with the manufacturer, responsible person, product identification with a picture, and warnings (Article 19).", "Open public complaint channels, investigate complaints and keep the internal register of complaints, recalls and corrective measures (Article 9(11) to (13)).", "Set up a procedure to notify dangerous products and serious accidents through the Safety Business Gateway without undue delay (Articles 9(8), 11(8), 12(4) and 20).", "Prepare a recall procedure with the Article 36 notice content and at least two of repair, replacement or refund (Article 37); if you run a marketplace, register on the Safety Gate Portal (Article 22(1))." ], "faq": [ { "q": "When did GPSR start to apply?", "a": "Regulation (EU) 2023/988 entered into force on 12 June 2023, the twentieth day after its publication in the Official Journal on 23 May 2023, and applies from 13 December 2024. From that date Directives 2001/95/EC and 87/357/EEC are repealed, but Member States may not impede products that conform to Directive 2001/95/EC and were placed on the market before 13 December 2024.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 50, Art. 51 and Art. 52" }, { "q": "Does GPSR apply to CE-marked products that already have their own EU legislation?", "a": "Partly. Where Union law sets specific safety requirements, GPSR applies only to the aspects and risks those requirements do not cover. For products under Union harmonisation legislation, Chapter II does not apply to the risks that legislation covers, and Chapter IIa, Chapter III Section 1, Chapters V and VII and Chapters IX to XI do not apply at all, while the rules on distance sales, accident reporting, online marketplaces and recalls still do.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02023R0988-20260529 · Art. 2(1)" }, { "q": "Are second-hand, repaired or refurbished products covered?", "a": "Yes. The regulation applies to products placed or made available on the market whether new, used, repaired or reconditioned. Only products that are to be repaired or reconditioned before use, and are clearly marked as such, fall outside it; antiques are also excluded.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 2(2)(i) and Art. 2(3)" }, { "q": "Do I need a responsible person in the EU?", "a": "A product covered by the regulation may not be placed on the market unless an economic operator established in the Union is responsible for the tasks set out in Article 4(3) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 for that product, and Article 4(2) and (3) of that regulation apply. That operator is therefore a manufacturer established in the Union; an importer, where the manufacturer is not established in the Union; an authorised representative with a written mandate from the manufacturer to perform those tasks on its behalf; or a fulfilment service provider established in the Union, for the products it handles, where none of the others is established in the Union. Its name, registered trade name or trade mark and contact details, including postal and electronic address, must appear on the product, its packaging, the parcel or an accompanying document, and it must provide documented evidence of its checks on request.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 16(1), Art. 16(2) and Art. 16(3); https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020 · Art. 4(2)" }, { "q": "What must an online product listing show under GPSR?", "a": "The offer must clearly and visibly show the manufacturer's name, registered trade name or trade mark and postal and electronic address; where the manufacturer is not established in the Union, the name and addresses of the responsible person; information identifying the product, including a picture, its type and any other identifier; and any warning or safety information required, in a language easily understood by consumers as determined by the Member State.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 19" }, { "q": "What do I have to do if a product causes an accident?", "a": "The manufacturer must notify the accident through the Safety Business Gateway to the competent authorities of the Member State where it occurred, without undue delay after learning of it, when the product caused death or serious adverse effects on health and safety, including injuries, illnesses and chronic effects. Importers and distributors that learn of an accident must inform the manufacturer without undue delay; the manufacturer notifies or instructs one of them to do so, and the responsible person ensures notification when the manufacturer is outside the Union.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 20" }, { "q": "What must a recall offer consumers?", "a": "The economic operator responsible for the recall must offer an effective, cost-free and timely remedy and a choice between at least two of repair, replacement with a safe product of the same type and at least the same value, or a refund of at least the price paid. Only one remedy may be offered where the others would be impossible or disproportionately costly, and the consumer is always entitled to a refund if repair or replacement is not completed within a reasonable time. Written recall information must take the form of a recall notice headed Product safety recall.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 36 and Art. 37" }, { "q": "How long must I keep technical documentation and traceability records?", "a": "Manufacturers keep the technical documentation for 10 years after the product was placed on the market, and importers keep a copy for the same period. All economic operators must be able to give the authorities the risk, complaint, accident and corrective-measure information for 10 years and the identity of their suppliers and customers for six years. Personal data in the complaints register may be kept no longer than five years.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 9(3), Art. 9(13), Art. 11(6) and Art. 15" } ], "changelog": [ { "date": "2026-05-29", "kind": "amendment", "title": "Emergency procedures for crisis-relevant goods apply", "summary": "Regulation (EU) 2024/2748 applies from this date: Chapter IIa (Articles 8a to 8c) allows an additional presumption of conformity and prioritised market surveillance for products designated as crisis-relevant goods while an internal market emergency mode under Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 is active.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R2748 · Art. 7" }, { "date": "2024-12-13", "kind": "applies", "title": "GPSR applies; the General Product Safety Directive is repealed", "summary": "Regulation (EU) 2023/988 applies in all Member States from 13 December 2024. Directives 2001/95/EC and 87/357/EEC are repealed with effect from the same date, Member States had to notify their penalty rules by then, and products conforming to Directive 2001/95/EC placed on the market before that date may continue to be made available.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 44(3), Art. 50, Art. 51 and Art. 52" }, { "date": "2024-12-13", "kind": "guidance", "title": "Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/3173 on the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System applies", "summary": "The Commission's delegated act under Article 26(10) supplements the regulation without amending it (EUR-Lex lists only Regulation (EU) 2024/2748 as an amending act); it sets the rules on access to and operation of the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System, the information to be entered, notification requirements and the criteria for assessing the level of risk; it applies from the same day as the regulation.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R3173 · Art. 3" }, { "date": "2024-11-08", "kind": "amendment", "title": "Regulation (EU) 2024/2748 published", "summary": "The amending regulation of 9 October 2024, published in the Official Journal on 8 November 2024, replaces point (b) of the third subparagraph of Article 2(1), adds definitions 29 and 30 and inserts Chapter IIa; its provisions apply from 29 May 2026.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R2748 · Art. 5 and Art. 7" }, { "date": "2023-06-12", "kind": "in-force", "title": "Regulation (EU) 2023/988 enters into force", "summary": "Adopted on 10 May 2023 and published in OJ L 135 on 23 May 2023, the regulation entered into force on the twentieth day after publication; its application was deferred to 13 December 2024.", "source": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988 · Art. 52" } ], "sources": [ { "label": "Regulation (EU) 2023/988 on general product safety, consolidated text of 29 May 2026 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02023R0988-20260529" }, { "label": "Regulation (EU) 2023/988 as published in OJ L 135, 23 May 2023 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "label": "Document information, dates and relationships for CELEX 32023R0988 (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988" }, { "label": "Regulation (EU) 2024/2748 amending Regulation (EU) 2023/988 as regards emergency procedures (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R2748" }, { "label": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/3173 on the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R3173" }, { "label": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 on market surveillance and compliance of products (EUR-Lex)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32019R1020" }, { "label": "Product safety (European Commission)", "url": "https://commission.europa.eu/topics/business-and-industry/product-safety_en" }, { "label": "Safety Gate: the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products (European Commission)", "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate/" }, { "label": "Generel produktsikkerhed (Erhvervsstyrelsen, Markedsovervågning, formerly Sikkerhedsstyrelsen)", "url": "https://www.sik.dk/erhverv/produkter/generel-produktsikkerhed" } ], "reviewer": { "name": "Conphora compliance team", "role": "Compliance editors, Conphora" }, "reviewedAt": "2026-09-24", "nextReview": "2027-09-09", "links": { "tools": [ "recall-manager" ], "courses": [], "related": { "en": "/regulations/gpsr/", "dk": "/dk/eu-regulativer/gpsr/" } } }