The General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) states that certain products must come with written warnings and safety instructions. However, it can be challenging to determine when warnings and safety instructions are necessary, and how to write these.
In this guide, we explain when warnings and safety instructions are mandated by the GPSR and the methods you can apply to write suitable instructions for your product.
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Companies importing products to the European Union are required to comply with the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR). In practice, this means that importers are required to verify that their products are compliant with applicable product standards, correctly documented, and labelled.
In this guide, we take a closer look at how the General Product Safety Regulation applies to importers, and how you can determine if you are defined as an importer in the first place.
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The General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) requires that manufacturers ensure that their products meet the highest standards of safety. In addition, manufacturers are required to create technical documentation, arrange lab testing, and ensure that their products are correctly labelled with their company details.
In this guide, we explain how you can determine if your company is deemed to be the manufacturer or not. This can be the case, even if you do not actually make products in house. In addition, we also take a closer look at the steps that must be taken to comply with the GPSR, and how the responsibilities differ for manufacturers based in the EU and outside.
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In this guide, we list examples of products that are covered by the General Product Safety Regulation. By reading this guide, you also learn about the different product categories for which a harmonised standard exists under the regulation, the significance of a harmonised standard, and what you should do when selling products that are not covered by such standards.
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In this guide, we list product categories for which there exist one or more harmonised standards referenced under the General Product Safety Directive, and provide examples of covered products and relevant standards. Note that, according to the General Product Safety Regulation, such standards also provide a presumption of conformity with the safety requirements laid down by the regulation.
Harmonised standards are generally necessary to comply with the safety requirements set by the regulation. Applying a harmonised standard would mean that your product is presumed to be safe, as explained in Article 7 of the regulation:
1. For the purpose of this Regulation, a product shall be presumed to be in conformity with the general safety requirement laid down in Article 5 of this Regulation in the following cases:
(a) it conforms to relevant European standards or parts thereof as far as the risks and risk categories covered by those standards are concerned, the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union in accordance with Article 10(7) of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012; or
(b) in the absence of any relevant European standards as referred to in point (a) of this paragraph, the product conforms to national requirements, as regards the risks and risk categories covered by health and safety requirements laid down in the national law of the Member State in which it is made available on the market, provided that such law is in compliance with Union law.
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Ensuring compliance with the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) requires that your product meets safety, labelling, and other requirements set by relevant product standards. In this guide, we explain how you can identify such standards for your product, and how the principles can be implemented in practice.
You can also find a list of all standards that, at the time of publication, listed as harmonised under the General Product Safety Regulation.
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The General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) sets testing requirements a wide range of consumer products sold in the European Union. In this guide, we explain what brands, manufacturers, and importers must know about testing requirements under the GPSR, and how these relate to technical documentation and European standards.
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General Product Safety Regulation extends mandatory technical documentation requirements to children’s products, furniture, gym equipment, and many other products that were previously not subject to such requirements.
In this guide, we explain what you must include in your technical documentation, and why this is such an integral part of the GPSR compliance process.
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The General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) sets labelling requirements for essentially all consumer products sold in the European Union. More specifically, it sets requirements that concern the product, manufacturer, and contact details. The GPSR also sets requirements that concern instructions and age suitability.
In this guide, we take a closer look at the articles under the General Product Safety Regulation that reference labelling requirements.
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The General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) is a new regulation that will replace the General Product Safety Directive (GPSD). Its purpose is to set safety and other requirements for all consumer products, regardless of whether product-specific regulations, directives, or standards exist.
This is already the case with the GPSD, but the GPSR goes beyond the GPSD in some aspects. The GPSR also provides more detailed requirements, for example, in terms of product and packaging labelling.
In this guide, we help you better understand the new GPSR and the steps you must take before it finally replaces the GPSD.
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