General Product Safety Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2023/988
Safety of consumer products, including duties for online marketplaces.
What we read it for
The act behind our product safety pages: the duties of a seller, an importer and an online marketplace when a product is unsafe.
Identity
| Type | Regulation |
| Identifier | EU 2023/988 |
| CELEX | 32023R0988 |
| Adopted | 2023-05-10 |
| In force | 2023-06-12 |
| Applies from | 2024-12-13 |
52 articles in the base act
Structure
| Chapter | Act | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| I | General provisions | 1–5 |
| II | Safety requirements | 6–8 |
| III | Obligations of economic operators | 9–21 |
| IV | Providers of online marketplaces | 22 |
| V | Market surveillance and implementation | 23–30 |
| VI | Safety Gate rapid alert system | 31–34 |
| VII | Role of the Commission and enforcement coordination | 35–39 |
| VIII | Right to information and remedy | 40–44 |
| IX | International cooperation | 45 |
| X | Financial provisions | 46–48 |
| XI | Final provisions | 49–52 |
Articles
52 articles are read into the register, one address each.
- 1 · Objective and subject matter
- 2 · Scope
- 3 · Definitions
- 4 · Distance sales
- 5 · General safety requirement
- 6 · Aspects for assessing the safety of products
- 7 · Presumption of conformity with the general safety requirement
- 8 · Additional elements to be taken into account for assessing the safety of products
- 9 · Obligations of manufacturers
- 10 · Obligations of authorised representatives
- 11 · Obligations of importers
- 12 · Obligations of distributors
- 13 · Cases in which obligations of manufacturers apply to other persons
- 14 · Internal processes for product safety
- 15 · Cooperation of economic operators with market surveillance authorities
- 16 · Responsible person for products placed on the Union market
- 17 · Information to economic operators
- 18 · Specific traceability requirements for certain products, categories or groups of products
- 19 · Obligations of economic operators in the case of distance sales
- 20 · Obligations of economic operators in the case of accidents related to safety of products
- 21 · Information in electronic format
- 22 · Specific obligations of providers of online marketplaces related to product safety
- 23 · Market Surveillance
- 24 · Reporting
- 25 · Safety Gate Rapid Alert System
- 26 · Notification of dangerous products through the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System
- 27 · Safety Business Gateway
- 28 · Union action against products presenting a serious risk
- 29 · Request for an opinion from the Commission on divergences in risk assessment
- 30 · Consumer Safety Network
- 31 · Joint activities on product safety
- 32 · Simultaneous coordinated control actions of market surveillance authorities (‘Sweeps’)
- 33 · Information between authorities and general public
- 34 · Safety Gate Portal
- 35 · Information from economic operators and providers of online marketplaces to consumers on product safety
- 36 · Recall notice
- 37 · Remedies in the event of a product safety recall
- 38 · Memoranda of understanding
- 39 · Representative actions
- 40 · International cooperation
- 41 · Financing activities
- 42 · Protection of the Union’s financial interests
- 43 · Liability
- 44 · Penalties
- 45 · Exercise of the delegation
- 46 · Committee procedure
- 47 · Evaluation and review
- 48 · Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012
- 49 · Amendment to Directive (EU) 2020/1828
- 50 · Repeal
- 51 · Transitional provision
- 52 · Entry into force and application
Language versions
EUR-Lex publishes the act in every official language. These are the direct addresses for the languages this site is written in.
Norwegian is not an official EU language. Norwegian readers use the national register.
National law
One line per country. A line exists only when a primary source has been read; otherwise the national register is linked instead.
| National law | Identifier | Official text |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| Norway: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| Denmark: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| Finland: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| Germany: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| United Kingdom: Outside this jurisdiction | — | National register |
National implementing measures on EUR-Lex
Supervision
Official text
Who does this apply to
The register names five roles. Open a role to see the duties this act places on it, each row with its article and its source.
Does this apply to us?
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