The new product safety regulation has made it more difficult for harmful products to reach consumers in the EU.
The EU Parliament’s decision to tighten the safety regulations and marketplace surveillance is understandable, considering the number of potentially dangerous products available in online marketplaces and how quickly those marketplaces are evolving.
The regulation’s wide-ranging scope has left digital retailers and providers of online marketplaces with the substantial task of ensuring compliance with the products they make available on European marketplaces.
By extension, the GPSR has also affected small businesses that offer creative products, such as ceramic mugs or framed digital prints, by making them responsible for the safety of those products.
Let’s explore the obligations and compliance requirements businesses must meet to resume offering their creative products on European marketplaces.
The EU’s long list of compliance requirements got a little longer after the GPSR went into full effect on December 13, 2024.
The new product safety regulation applies to all new, used, or repurposed consumer goods available on offline or online marketplaces in the EU.
However, the document’s ambiguous language concerning the works of art and cultural products has created a certain amount of confusion among businesses that produce and sell such products on the EU’s o
