Regulation (EU) 2023/988 requires online and other distance-sales offers for consumer products to show specific safety and traceability information before EU consumers buy.
This page is a publication gate for product pages, marketplace listings, and seller feeds that target consumers in the Union.
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The GPSR has applied since 13 December 2024. For targeted at EU consumers, an online listing review should decide whether the offer can go live with all Article 19 information clearly visible and matched to the product evidence. Run the gate before publication, marketplace syndication, paid traffic, or relisting after a safety change.
Apply this gate to consumer products offered online or through another distance-sales channel when the offer is targeted at consumers in the Union. The GPSR source support points to indicators such as EU dispatch options, languages used for ordering, Member State currency, payment methods, and Member State domain names; mere technical accessibility from the EU is not enough on its own.
Do not wait for checkout or fulfilment to fix the listing. Article 19 addresses the offer itself. The consumer-facing product page or listing must clearly and visibly show the required information; a feed or back-office record is evidence, not a substitute for the live display.
The listing should not be treated as complete until the consumer can see the manufacturer identity, product identity, and safety information without opening a private compliance file. For products whose manufacturer is not established in the Union, the offer also needs the responsible person details required by GPSR Article 19.
Build these fields into the listing model as well as the consumer-facing description. Structured fields make it easier to send the approved record to marketplaces, compare live pages with approved copy, and detect missing data before publication.
A QR code, downloadable manual, package photograph, or electronic label can support the record but does not replace Article 19's clear and visible information in the offer. Article 21 allows specified product information to be provided additionally in digital form; it does not remove the physical product, packaging, accompanying-document, or online-offer display duties.
Use the Article 19 field list, warning-language checks, marketplace evidence, and publish-or-hold rules as a repeatable review before EU product pages and marketplace offers go live.
For marketplace channels, keep evidence for both the trader-supplied listing data and the marketplace display. Article 22 requires marketplace interfaces to enable traders to provide the same core product-safety information and to make it displayed or otherwise easily accessible to consumers on the product listing.
The evidence pack should let a reviewer compare the approved listing record against the live marketplace page. Capture the trader identity, manufacturer and responsible-person data, product identifiers, warning text, language version, image, publication timestamp, marketplace channel, and any marketplace validation, rejection, correction, warning, suspension, or takedown notice.
The online listing must not omit or soften safety information. Article 19 covers warnings or safety information required on the product, packaging, or accompanying document under the GPSR or applicable Union harmonisation law. Show that information in a language consumers can easily understand, as determined by the Member State where the product is made available.
Use the approved physical label and instructions as the source for online warning copy, then check that the listing has not shortened risk words, hidden age restrictions, removed hazard conditions, or replaced mandatory safety text with marketing language.
Use a simple release state for each listing: publish, hold, or delist. Publish only when all mandatory online-offer fields are present, traceable to approved product evidence, and visible to consumers in the relevant EU listing context.
Hold the offer when a required field is missing or the listing cannot be reconciled with product evidence. Delist or disable access when a safety issue, authority order, marketplace notice, or internal investigation means the online offer should no longer remain available while corrective action is pending.
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