Your EU Responsible Person under the General Product Safety Regulation

GPSR compliance guides

Guides for manufacturers and online sellers established outside the EU who sell consumer products to EU consumers under Regulation (EU) 2023/988.

Obligations and procedures

Labelling and traceability

What the GPSR requires on a consumer product, its packaging or accompanying documents: product identifier, manufacturer details, the EU Responsible Person, warnings and language.

Online listing requirements (Article 19)

What GPSR Article 19 requires in every online offer to EU consumers - manufacturer, EU Responsible Person, product identification, warnings - and what online marketplaces must do under Article 22.

Risk analysis and technical documentation

How to prepare the internal risk analysis and technical documentation required by Article 9 GPSR, which safety aspects Article 6 lists, and how long the documentation must be kept.

Accidents and the Safety Business Gateway

When GPSR requires businesses to notify accidents and dangerous products through the Safety Business Gateway, who notifies, and how this links to Safety Gate and corrective action.

Product recalls under the GPSR

How product recalls work under GPSR Articles 35 to 37: contacting affected consumers directly, what the recall notice must and must not say, and the remedy consumers are entitled to.

By country of origin

GPSR for Chinese sellers

What Chinese manufacturers and marketplace sellers need under the GPSR to sell consumer products in the EU: an EU-established Responsible Person, product labelling, listing information and documentation.

GPSR for US sellers

What US brands and Etsy, eBay, Amazon or Shopify sellers need under the GPSR to keep selling to EU consumers: an EU Responsible Person, EU labelling and listing information.

GPSR for UK sellers

What UK businesses need under the EU GPSR to sell consumer products to the EU after Brexit, why a UK address is not an EU contact, and how Northern Ireland is treated.

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