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EU General Product Safety Regulation (EU GPSR) 2023/988: scope, obligations, risk assessment, online marketplaces, recalls and enforcement; application in Northern Ireland and divergence in Great Britain

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Practice notes

This Practice Note provides guidance on Regulation (EU) 2023/988 on general product safety, known as the EU General Product Safety Regulation (EU GPSR). Under the EU GPSR, economic operators may place on the market only products that are safe. With effect from 13 December 2024, the EU GPSR repealed Directive 2001/95/EC, the EU General Product Safety Directive (EU GPSD). This Practice Note summarises the Regulation’s objectives and scope, sets out the main obligations, and examines how product safety is assessed under the EU GPSR. It also considers enforcement aspects. This Practice Note does not address product liability legislation. For further details on EU product liability, see Practice Note: The Revised EU Product Liability Directive.

Background and objectives

The EU GPSR aims to strengthen the functioning of the internal market while safeguarding consumers’ health and safety. It establishes essential requirements for the safety of consumer products placed on, or made available in, the market. The Regulation entered into force on 12 June 2023 and began to apply on 13 December 2024; it included a transitional provision allowing products compliant with the EU GPSD until that date...

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Aonghus Heatley

Fieldfisher

Aonghus supports businesses operating in heavily regulated industries in relation to regulatory risk and opportunities. Aonghus has particular experience in advising national and multinational businesses on the application of UK and EU regulatory regimes to their operations and have assisted clients in the consumer goods, chemicals, food and beverage, real estate and automotive sectors. Prior to joining Fieldfisher in March 2021, Aonghus was a Senior Associate at another leading international law firm where he was responsible for a wide range of environmental, regulatory and health and safety law matters. In 2017-2018 Aonghus worked an in-house lawyer at Volvo Trucks (part of the Volvo Group) in Gothenburg, Sweden where he advised on a wide range of commercial and regulatory law matters. He has also interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Aonghus is admitted to practice law in England, Ireland and New...

Peter Sellar

Fieldfisher

As a member of the Environmental, ESG and EU Regulatory practice in Brussels, Peter helps companies and industry associations understand, and comply with, EU regulations and other aspects of their route to the EU market. Peter's focus used to be on general chemicals, biocides, plant protection products, medical devices etc, but now, while that remains a core expertise, his attention is on all things ESG (eco-design, batteries, packaging and packaging waste, green claims,deforestation, forced labour etc.). He focuses on EU-wide advocacy campaigns to avoid adverse regulation, failing which litigation before the Courts of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. Peter pays meticulous attention to ensuring that written pleadings compel and support that with the skill of a trained Scots advocate in court. In environmental law, he led on the most recent success before both the General Court and Court of Justice in...

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