Article 18 — Specific traceability requirements for certain products, categories or groups of products

General Product Safety Regulation — Regulation (EU) 2023/988

What does GPSR Article 18 say?

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1. For certain products, categories or groups of products which are likely to present a serious risk to the health and safety of consumers, based on accidents registered in the Safety Business Gateway, the Safety Gate statistics, the results of the joint activities on product safety and other relevant indicators or evidence …

Source: General Product Safety Regulation — Regulation (EU) 2023/988, read 2026-09-26.

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1. For certain products, categories or groups of products which are likely to present a serious risk to the health and safety of consumers, based on accidents registered in the Safety Business Gateway, the Safety Gate statistics, the results of the joint activities on product safety and other relevant indicators or evidence, and after consulting the Consumer Safety Network, relevant expert groups and relevant stakeholders, the Commission may set up a system of traceability to which economic operators who place and make available those products on the market shall adhere.

2. The system of traceability shall consist of the collection and storage of data, including by electronic means, enabling the identification of the product, its components or of the economic operators involved in its supply chain, as well as in modalities to display and to access those data, including placement of a data carrier on the product, its packaging or accompanying documents.

3. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 45 to supplement this Regulation by:

(a) determining the products, categories or groups of products or components likely to present a serious risk to the health and safety of consumers as referred to in paragraph 1; the Commission shall state in the delegated acts concerned whether it has used the risk analysis methodology provided for in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/417 ( 30 ) or, if that methodology is not appropriate for the product concerned, it shall give a detailed description of the methodology used;

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Who does this apply to

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• Online marketplace
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