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

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Recitals

Chapter I – General provisions (Art. 1-4)
Art. 1GPSR - Objective and subject matter
Art. 2GPSR - Scope
Art. 3GPSR - Definitions
Art. 4GPSR - Distance sales
Chapter II – Safety requirements (Art. 5-8)
Art. 5GPSR - General safety requirement
Art. 6GPSR - Aspects for assessing the safety of products
Art. 7GPSR - Presumption of conformity with the general safety requirement
Art. 8GPSR - Additional elements to be taken into account for assessing the safety of products
Chapter III – Obligations of economic operators (Art. 9-21)
Art. 9GPSR - Obligations of manufacturers
Art. 10GPSR - Obligations of authorised representatives
Art. 11GPSR - Obligations of importers
Art. 12GPSR - Obligations of distributors
Art. 13GPSR - Cases in which obligations of manufacturers apply to other persons
Art. 14GPSR - Internal processes for product safety
Art. 15GPSR - Cooperation of economic operators with market surveillance authorities
Art. 16GPSR - Responsible person for products placed on the Union market
Art. 17GPSR - Information to economic operators
Art. 18GPSR - Specific traceability requirements for certain products, categories or groups of products
Art. 19GPSR - Obligations of economic operators in the case of distance sales
Art. 20GPSR - Obligations of economic operators in the case of accidents related to safety of products
Art. 21GPSR - Information in electronic format
Chapter IV – Providers of online marketplaces (Art. 22)
Art. 22GPSR - Specific obligations of providers of online marketplaces related to product safety
Chapter V – Market surveillance and implementation (Art. 23-24)
Art. 23GPSR - Market Surveillance
Art. 24GPSR - Reporting
Chapter VI – Safety Gate Rapid Alert System and Safety Business Gateway (Art. 25-27)
Art. 25GPSR - Safety Gate Rapid Alert System
Art. 26GPSR - Notification of dangerous products through the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System
Art. 27GPSR - Safety Business Gateway
Chapter VII – Commission’s role and enforcement coordination (Art. 28-32)
Art. 28GPSR - Union action against products presenting a serious risk
Art. 29GPSR - Request for an opinion from the Commission on divergences in risk assessment
Art. 30GPSR - Consumer Safety Network
Art. 31GPSR - Joint activities on product safety
Art. 32GPSR - Simultaneous coordinated control actions of market surveillance authorities (‘Sweeps’)
Chapter VIII – Right to information and to a remedy (Art. 33-39)
Art. 33GPSR - Information between authorities and general public
Art. 34GPSR - Safety Gate Portal
Art. 35GPSR - Information from economic operators and providers of online marketplaces to consumers on product safety
Art. 36GPSR - Recall notice
Art. 37GPSR - Remedies in the event of a product safety recall
Art. 38GPSR - Memoranda of understanding
Art. 39GPSR - Representative actions
Chapter IX – International cooperation (Art. 40)
Art. 40GPSR - International cooperation
Chapter X – Financial provisions (Art. 41-42)
Art. 41GPSR - Financing activities
Art. 42GPSR - Protection of the Union’s financial interests
Chapter XI – Final provisions (Art. 43-52)
Art. 43GPSR - Liability
Art. 44GPSR - Penalties
Art. 45GPSR - Exercise of the delegation
Art. 46GPSR - Committee procedure
Art. 47GPSR - Evaluation and review
Art. 48GPSR - Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012
Art. 49GPSR - Amendment to Directive (EU) 2020/1828
Art. 50GPSR - Repeal
Art. 51GPSR - Transitional provision
Art. 52GPSR - Entry into force and application
Annexes
Art. AnnexGPSR - Correlation table

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

Status: In force since 12 June 2023 and applicable since 13 December 2024. Amended emergency provisions apply from 29 May 2026.

EUR-Lex-link: The adopted and published version, including other language versions can be found here.

Full name: 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.

Type: Regulation.

Objective and key elements:

Aims to modernise the EU framework on general product safety in light of technological developments and increased online selling.
Introduces harmonized rules for general product safety concerning consumer products, including products sold online or imported from third countries.
Imposes obligations on manufacturers, importers and distributors of consumer products to ensure that consumer products are safe.
Establishes specific obligations for providers of online marketplaces, such as to facilitate reporting of unsafe products, notify affected consumers of unsafe products bought through their marketplace and to remove, disable access or display an explicit warning for unsafe products upon order by the market surveillance authority.
Requires relevant cybersecurity features and protection against external influence to be considered where they may affect product safety.
Establishes obligations for the provision of specific information relating to traceability when consumer products are made available through distance sales.

Relevant to: Manufacturers, importers, distributors, providers of online marketplaces and other entities engaged in the supply chain of consumer products within the EU.

Notable amendment:

Regulation (EU) 2024/2748: introduces emergency procedures for products designated as crisis-relevant goods during an activated internal-market emergency. These include prioritised assessments, emergency common specifications and adapted market-surveillance procedures. Applicable since 29 May 2026.

(Last updated 11 August 2026)

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

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