Product compliance · Safety
Product-safety compliance, as a registry record
The General Product Safety Regulation sets the law; this page sets out what a manufacturer, importer or distributor actually has to hold to show it — the file an authority asks for, not the text of the regulation itself.
The legal baseline
Every consumer product placed on the EU market needs an internal risk analysis, technical documentation, and traceability back to its batch or serial — duties that sit with the manufacturer, importer and distributor in turn under GPSR articles 9 to 12. The full obligations, dates and sanctions are on the regulation's own fact sheet; this page is about what ends up in the record.
The operator every product needs
A product needs a reachable EU party whether or not GPSR is its only rule: GPSR article 16 names a responsible person for general consumer products, and CE-marked goods carry the same duty as the "economic operator established in the Union" of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, article 4. In practice it is the same job — a name, an address and a mandate to answer market surveillance — recorded once and read by both rules.
Evidence a record should hold
What an authority, or a buyer's own due-diligence team, actually asks to see behind the product.
- The risk assessment and its date, referenced not reproduced
- Technical documentation: pointer, version and who holds the original
- Responsible-person name, address and live contact details
- Batch or serial traceability, matched to the record's own identifiers
- Accident reports and recall notices, with the consumer-notification trail
How Listrar structures it
Each of these sits on the field it supports, not in a separate folder: evidence carries its source, its issuer and its validity, the same way a claim or a certificate does elsewhere in the record. A recall updates the record it was issued against, and the trail stays attached rather than living in an inbox. Passport compliance follows the same shape once a delegated act applies to the product.
Questions this page answers
- Does GPSR replace sector-specific safety law?
- No. It is the general net for consumer products that have no sector-specific EU safety law of their own, and it fills gaps in harmonised legislation for the aspects that legislation does not cover.
- Who counts as the responsible person if we manufacture outside the EU?
- An importer or a mandated representative established in the EU — named on the product or its packaging, and able to produce the technical file and risk assessment on request.
Official sources
Last verified by Listrar: September 23, 2026