General Product Safety Regulation

Regulation (EU) 2023/988 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 on general product safety, amending Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Directive (EU) 2020/1828 of the European Parliament and the Council, and repealing Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 87/357/EEC – Official Journal

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Table of contents

• Chapter I

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  General provisions (Art. 1 - 4)
• Article 1

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  Objective and subject matter
• Article 2

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  Scope
• Article 3

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  Definitions
• Article 4

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  Distance sales

• Chapter II

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  Safety requirements (Art. 5 - 8)
• Article 5

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  General safety requirement
• Article 6

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  Aspects for assessing the safety of products
• Article 7

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  Presumption of conformity with the general safety requirement
• Article 8

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  Additional elements to be taken into account for assessing the safety of products

• Chapter III

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  Obligations of economic operators (Art. 9 - 21)
• Section 1

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• Article 9

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  Obligations of manufacturers
• Article 10

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  Obligations of authorised representatives
• Article 11

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  Obligations of importers
• Article 12

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  Obligations of distributors
• Article 13

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  Cases in which obligations of manufacturers apply to other persons
• Article 14

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  Internal processes for product safety
• Article 15

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  Cooperation of economic operators with market surveillance authorities
• Article 16

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  Responsible person for products placed on the Union market
• Article 17

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  Information to economic operators
• Article 18

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  Specific traceability requirements for certain products, categories or groups of products
• Section 2

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• Article 19

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  Obligations of economic operators in the case of distance sales
• Article 20

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  Obligations of economic operators in the case of accidents related to safety of products
• Article 21

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  Information in electronic format

• Chapter IV

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  Providers of online marketplaces (Art. 22)
• Article 22

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  Specific obligations of providers of online marketplaces related to product safety

• Chapter V

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  Market surveillance and implementation (Art. 23 - 24)
• Article 23

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  Market Surveillance
• Article 24

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  Reporting

• Chapter VI

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  Safety Gate Rapid Alert System and Safety Business Gateway (Art. 25 - 27)
• Article 25

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  Safety Gate Rapid Alert System
• Article 26

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  Notification of dangerous products through the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System
• Article 27

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  Safety Business Gateway

• Chapter VII

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  Commission's role and enforcement coordination (Art. 28 - 32)
• Article 28

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  Union action against products presenting a serious risk
• Article 29

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  Request for an opinion from the Commission on divergences in risk assessment
• Article 30

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  Consumer Safety Network
• Article 31

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  Joint activities on product safety
• Article 32

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  Simultaneous coordinated control actions of market surveillance authorities (‘Sweeps’)

• Chapter VIII

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  Right ti information and to a remedy (Art. 33 - 39)
• Article 33

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  Information between authorities and general public
• Article 34

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  Safety Gate Portal
• Article 35

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  Information from economic operators and providers of online marketplaces to consumers on product safety
• Article 36

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  Recall notice
• Article 37

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  Remedies in the event of a product safety recall
• Article 38

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  Memoranda of understanding
• Article 39

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  Representative actions

• Chapter IX

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  International cooperation (Art. 40)
• Article 40

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  International cooperation

• Chapter X

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  Financial provisions (Art. 41 - 42)
• Article 41

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  Financing activities
• Article 42

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  Protection of the Union’s financial interests

• Chapter XI

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  Final provisions (Art. 43 - 52)
• Article 43

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  Liability
• Article 44

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  Penalties
• Article 45

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  Exercise of the delegation
• Article 46

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  Committee procedure
• Article 47

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  Evaluation and review
• Article 48

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  Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012
• Article 49

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  Amendment to Directive (EU) 2020/1828
• Article 50

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  Repeal
• Article 51

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  Transitional provision
• Article 52

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  Entry into force and application

Annex

• Annex 1

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  Correlation table