Market Surveillance Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2019/1020
Market surveillance and the responsible person established in the union.
What we read it for
The act behind the responsible person line: who inside the union answers for a product sold from outside it.
Identity
| Type | Regulation |
| Identifier | EU 2019/1020 |
| CELEX | 32019R1020 |
| Adopted | 2019-06-20 |
| In force | 2019-07-15 |
| Applies from | 2021-07-16 |
44 articles in the base act
Structure
The chapter structure of this act is not read into the register yet. The official text carries it.
Articles
44 articles are read into the register, one address each.
- 1 · Subject matter
- 2 · Scope
- 3 · Definitions
- 4 · Tasks of economic operators regarding products subject to certain Union harmonisation legislation
- 5 · Authorised representative
- 6 · Distance sales
- 7 · Obligation of cooperation
- 8 · Information to economic operators
- 9 · Joint activities to promote compliance
- 10 · Designation of market surveillance authorities and the single liaison office
- 11 · Activities of market surveillance authorities
- 12 · Peer reviews
- 13 · National market surveillance strategies
- 14 · Powers of market surveillance authorities
- 15 · Recovery of costs by market surveillance authorities
- 16 · Market surveillance measures
- 17 · Use of information, professional and commercial secrecy
- 18 · Procedural rights of economic operators
- 19 · Products presenting a serious risk
- 20 · Rapid Information Exchange System
- 21 · Union testing facilities
- 22 · Mutual Assistance
- 23 · Requests for enforcement measures
- 24 · Procedure for mutual assistance requests
- 25 · Controls on products entering the Union market
- 26 · Suspension of release for free circulation
- 27 · Release for free circulation
- 28 · Refusal to release for free circulation
- 29 · Union Product Compliance Network
- 30 · Composition and functioning of the Network
- 31 · Role and tasks of the Network
- 32 · Role and tasks of administrative cooperation groups
- 33 · Role and tasks of the Commission
- 34 · Information and communication system
- 35 · International cooperation
- 36 · Financing activities
- 37 · Protection of the financial interests of the Union
- 38 · Amendments to Directive 2004/42/EC
- 39 · Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 765/2008
- 40 · Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 305/2011
- 41 · Penalties
- 42 · Evaluation, review and guidelines
- 43 · Committee procedure
- 44 · Entry into force and application
Language versions
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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.
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