EU product rules, and what you can skip
Most guides tell you what to do. This one also tells you what you canskip, with the article number that proves it.
Free guides to EU product law for businesses selling into the EU from outside it. Every claim carries the article number it comes from, so you can check it against the official text. Where something is not verified, the page says so rather than guessing. Nothing here is legal advice.
See every obligation that can bind you, in one list — what each one is, which we have read at the article, and which we have only been told about.
Guides
GPSR: Regulation (EU) 2023/988, the complete reference
What the General Product Safety Regulation is, who it binds, what each role in the supply chain owes, and what a business can lawfully skip - every claim carries the article number it comes from.
- GPSR
- product safety
- EU regulation
The EU Responsible Person: who can be one, and what they owe
What Regulation (EU) 2023/988 Article 16 actually requires, why the role is a closed list of four EU-established operators under Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 Article 4(2), and what genuinely drives the price - with the article number behind every claim.
- GPSR
- responsible person
- non-EU business
- market surveillance
GPSR: what it requires if you sell into the EU from outside it
A plain-English reading of Regulation (EU) 2023/988 for businesses established outside the EU, with the article number behind every claim - and a straight list of the duties that do not apply to you.
- GPSR
- product safety
- non-EU business
How this site works
Four rules, and they are the whole editorial policy.
The answer comes first. Every guide opens with the verdict in two or three sentences, before any explanation. If you only read the top of the page, you should still know what to do.
Every claim carries its article. A regulation is a grid of obligations, not an essay, so we write it as tables and cite the article number on each line. You can check any sentence here against the published text.
We say when we do not know. Unverified points are labelled unverified. A guide that cannot admit a gap is guessing somewhere, and you cannot tell where.
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The full editorial policyadds how sources are chosen, why we read primary law rather than other people's summaries, and how often each guide is reviewed. Mistakes are logged on thecorrections page, and other substantive changes in thechangelog.