EU's Product Safety Law Takes Effect
The EU’s new General Product Safety Regulation took effect this week, placing new restrictions on imported goods to ensure “only safe products” are sold in the EU market. The law places “specific product safety requirements” for online marketplaces and requires…
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“all non-harmonised products imported to the EU” to have an EU-based economic operator “responsible for the product safety issues,” the European Commission said June 12. The law also provides member states with “necessary tools” to help with enforcement.