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(104) See Article R1 (7) of Annex I of Decision No 768/2008/EC and Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020. Some legislation includes other specific entities that have obligations to fulfil, such as Directive 2013/53/EU on recreational craft and personal watercraft, which requires that a private importer, before putting the product into service, shall ensure that it has been designed and manufactured in accordance with the requirements set out in the relevant legislation. Market surveillance authorities should address such entities if they are the most relevant ones for a case. The definition of economic operator in Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 extends to such entities by referring to ‘any other natural or legal person who is subject to obligations in relation to the manufacture of products, making them available on the market or putting them into service in accordance with the relevant Union harmonisation legislation’ and gives non-exhaustive list of examples in recital 14. Further examples are the owner and the operator defined in Directive 2010/35/EU, and the dealer and a natural or legal person who engages in the storage, use, transfer, import, export or trade of explosive, referred to in Directive 2014/28/EU.
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.