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  • General Product Safety Regulation
    • Chapter I (Art. 1 - 4)
      General provisions
      • Article 1
        Objective and subject matter
      • Article 2
        Scope
      • Article 3
        Definitions
      • Article 4
        Distance sales
    • Chapter II (Art. 5 - 8)
      Safety requirements
      • Article 5
        General safety requirement
      • Article 6
        Aspects for assessing the safety of products
      • Article 7
        Presumption of conformity with the general safety requirement
      • Article 8
        Additional elements to be taken into account for assessing the safety of products
    • Chapter III (Art. 9 - 21)
      Obligations of economic operators
      • Section 1 (Art. 9 - 18)
        • Article 9
          Obligations of manufacturers
        • Article 10
          Obligations of authorised representatives
        • Article 11
          Obligations of importers
        • Article 12
          Obligations of distributors
        • Article 13
          Cases in which obligations of manufacturers apply to other persons
        • Article 14
          Internal processes for product safety
        • Article 15
          Cooperation of economic operators with market surveillance authorities
        • Article 16
          Responsible person for products placed on the Union market
        • Article 17
          Information to economic operators
        • Article 18
          Specific traceability requirements for certain products, categories or groups of products
      • Section 2 (Art. 19 - 21)
        • Article 19
          Obligations of economic operators in the case of distance sales
        • Article 20
          Obligations of economic operators in the case of accidents related to safety of products
        • Article 21
          Information in electronic format
    • Chapter IV (Art. 22)
      Providers of online marketplaces
      • Article 22
        Specific obligations of providers of online marketplaces related to product safety
    • Chapter V (Art. 23 - 24)
      Market surveillance and implementation
      • Article 23
        Market Surveillance
      • Article 24
        Reporting
    • Chapter VI (Art. 25 - 27)
      Safety Gate Rapid Alert System and Safety Business Gateway
      • Article 25
        Safety Gate Rapid Alert System
      • Article 26
        Notification of dangerous products through the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System
      • Article 27
        Safety Business Gateway
    • Chapter VII (Art. 28 - 32)
      Commission's role and enforcement coordination
      • Article 28
        Union action against products presenting a serious risk
      • Article 29
        Request for an opinion from the Commission on divergences in risk assessment
      • Article 30
        Consumer Safety Network
      • Article 31
        Joint activities on product safety
      • Article 32
        Simultaneous coordinated control actions of market surveillance authorities (‘Sweeps’)
    • Chapter VIII (Art. 33 - 39)
      Right ti information and to a remedy
      • Article 33
        Information between authorities and general public
      • Article 34
        Safety Gate Portal
      • Article 35
        Information from economic operators and providers of online marketplaces to consumers on product safety
      • Article 36
        Recall notice
      • Article 37
        Remedies in the event of a product safety recall
      • Article 38
        Memoranda of understanding
      • Article 39
        Representative actions
    • Chapter IX (Art. 40)
      International cooperation
      • Article 40
        International cooperation
    • Chapter X (Art. 41 - 42)
      Financial provisions
      • Article 41
        Financing activities
      • Article 42
        Protection of the Union’s financial interests
    • Chapter XI (Art. 43 - 52)
      Final provisions
      • Article 43
        Liability
      • Article 44
        Penalties
      • Article 45
        Exercise of the delegation
      • Article 46
        Committee procedure
      • Article 47
        Evaluation and review
      • Article 48
        Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012
      • Article 49
        Amendment to Directive (EU) 2020/1828
      • Article 50
        Repeal
      • Article 51
        Transitional provision
      • Article 52
        Entry into force and application
  • Annex
    • Annex 1

Article 5 General safety requirement

Economic operators shall place or make available on the market only safe products.

Relevant Recitals

Recital 5, Recital 22, Recital 23, Recital 28, Recital 32

Article 4
Article 5
Article 6
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