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European Union

Key definition

Safety Gate definition

What does Safety Gate mean? In practice, Safety Gate is the EU’s rapid alert system used by market surveillance authorities to share warnings about unsafe non‑food consumer products and the related withdrawal and recall measures. It enables circulation of risk assessments and enforcement actions between EU member States and the European commission so that coordinated steps can be taken across the EU/EEA. The system does not cover pharmaceuticals or medical devices, which are subject to separate EU vigilance regimes. Safety Gate (formerly rapex) is referred to in EU product safety legislation and is embedded in the General Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988, which...

EU General Product Safety Directive 2001/95/EC: scope, obligations, safety assessment, Safety Gate, market surveillance and enforcement (archived; repealed by the General Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988)

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Practice notes

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ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is no longer updated or supported. STOP PRESS: The General Product Safety Directive (GPSD) has been revoked by Regulation (EU) 2023/988, referred to as the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR). For further details on the GPSR, please consult Practice Note: The EU General Product Safety Regulation. This Practice Note offers additional practical guidance on Directive 2001/95/EC, commonly called the General Product Safety Directive (GPSD). Under the GPSD, producers must place on the market only products that are safe. It also obliges Member States to carry out market surveillance in order to ensure producers and distributors fully meet their duties. This Practice Note sets out a summary of the key objectives, scope and recent developments of the GPSD. It also outlines producer and distributor responsibilities under the Directive and examines the evaluation of product safety, together with the Rapid Alert System, also known as the Safety Gate. This Practice Note concentrates on EU law and does not cover in detail how the GPSD has been transposed into UK law. For information on the UK framework, see relevant Practice Notes: General Product Safety Regulations 2005—Offences and Product safety notification and corrective actions.

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