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General Product Safety Regulation

Regulation (EU) 2023/988 on general product safety
32023R0988 · official text on EUR-Lex

Articles

Chapter I GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Article 1 — Objective and subject matter
• Article 2 — Scope
• Article 3 — Definitions
• Article 4 — Distance sales

Chapter II SAFETY REQUIREMENTS

• Article 5 — General safety requirement
• Article 6 — Aspects for assessing the safety of products
• Article 7 — Presumption of conformity with the general safety requirement
• Article 8 — Additional elements to be taken into account for assessing the safety of products

Chapter III OBLIGATIONS OF ECONOMIC OPERATORS

Section 1

• Article 9 — Obligations of manufacturers
• Article 10 — Obligations of authorised representatives
• Article 11 — Obligations of importers
• Article 12 — Obligations of distributors
• Article 13 — Cases in which obligations of manufacturers apply to other persons
• Article 14 — Internal processes for product safety
• Article 15 — Cooperation of economic operators with market surveillance authorities
• Article 16 — Responsible person for products placed on the Union market
• Article 17 — Information to economic operators
• Article 18 — Specific traceability requirements for certain products, categories or groups of products

Section 2

• Article 19 — Obligations of economic operators in the case of distance sales
• Article 20 — Obligations of economic operators in the case of accidents related to safety of products
• Article 21 — Information in electronic format

Chapter IV PROVIDERS OF ONLINE MARKETPLACES

• Article 22 — Specific obligations of providers of online marketplaces related to product safety

Chapter V MARKET SURVEILLANCE AND IMPLEMENTATION

• Article 23 — Market Surveillance
• Article 24 — Reporting

Chapter VI SAFETY GATE RAPID ALERT SYSTEM AND SAFETY BUSINESS GATEWAY

• Article 25 — Safety Gate Rapid Alert System
• Article 26 — Notification of dangerous products through the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System
• Article 27 — Safety Business Gateway

Chapter VII COMMISSION’S ROLE AND ENFORCEMENT COORDINATION

• Article 28 — Union action against products presenting a serious risk
• Article 29 — Request for an opinion from the Commission on divergences in risk assessment
• Article 30 — Consumer Safety Network
• Article 31 — Joint activities on product safety
• Article 32 — Simultaneous coordinated control actions of market surveillance authorities (‘Sweeps’)

Chapter VIII RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND TO A REMEDY

• Article 33 — Information between authorities and general public
• Article 34 — Safety Gate Portal
• Article 35 — Information from economic operators and providers of online marketplaces to consumers on product safety
• Article 36 — Recall notice
• Article 37 — Remedies in the event of a product safety recall
• Article 38 — Memoranda of understanding
• Article 39 — Representative actions

Chapter IX INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

• Article 40 — International cooperation

Chapter X FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

• Article 41 — Financing activities
• Article 42 — Protection of the Union’s financial interests

Chapter XI FINAL PROVISIONS

• Article 43 — Liability
• Article 44 — Penalties
• Article 45 — Exercise of the delegation
• Article 46 — Committee procedure
• Article 47 — Evaluation and review
• Article 48 — Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012
• Article 49 — Amendment to Directive (EU) 2020/1828
• Article 50 — Repeal
• Article 51 — Transitional provision
• Article 52 — Entry into force and application