§4 Where can I find more information?

You can find more information on product safety on the Safety Gate Portal (35) and the Commission’s public website. (36)On these pages, you will find general information about Consumer product safety, as well as information about the Safety Gate, the General Product Safety Regulation, the Product Safety Pledge+, international cooperation on product safety, standards and market surveillance. The Blue Guide on the implementation of EU product rules (the 2022 version is the latest version) (37) provides useful information for businesses. It provides a comprehensive description of the EU laws regulating products and of the context within which the GPSR applies. In particular, the Blue Guide explains (in Sections 1.2-1.3) the difference between harmonised and non-harmonised products from a product safety perspective, when it comes to the presumption of safety, market surveillance and obligations of economic operators. The functioning of the market surveillance in the EU is also further explained (in Section 7). As concerns the role of economic operators as provided for in Article 4 of Regulation 2019/1020 (‘responsible person in the EU’), the Commission has adopted Guidelines. (38) Those Guidelines assist both economic operators and supervisory authorities in the uniform application of the provisions of Article 4 of Regulation 2019/1020. EU Safety Gate Portal Every day, national authorities send information concerning measures taken or ordered against dangerous non-food products to the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System. Each alert contains information on the product detected as dangerous, a description of the risk and the measures taken by the economic operator or ordered by the authority. You can find the most recent Safety Gate alerts on the Safety Gate Portal (39), as well as the weekly reports (40), and can search for any alert published since 2005 (41). You can also subscribe to the Safety Gate newsletter (42) to receive the full weekly list of most recently published alerts. The Safety Gate Portal also provides a link to the Safety Business Gateway, where economic operators submit notifications of dangerous products to market surveillance authorities as well as guidelines for the practical implementation of the Safety Business Gateway. The Safety Gate Portal further contains a list of relevant contacts of market surveillance authorities, which deal with dangerous non-food products in the Member States. The implementing and delegated measures accompanying the GPSR also provide further information, notably on: — the rules on access to and operation of the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System, information to be entered in that System, notification requirements and the criteria for assessment of the level of risk (43); — the implementation of the interoperable interface of the Safety Gate Portal for providers of online marketplaces (44) ; — the template for a recall notice (45) ; — the modalities for consumers and other interested parties to inform the Commission of products that might present a risk to the health and safety of consumers (46) ; — the output indicators (47) ; and — the roles and tasks of the single national contact points of the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System (48). Finally, activity reports (including test results) are published in the framework of the regularly organised Coordinated Activities of the Safety of Products (CASP), in the course of which EU and EFTA authorities test together specific products. You can also find informative factsheets with key messages for businesses that can help you to acquire information on several product categories. Final reports and information material are available in all EU languages on the Safety Gate Portal (49).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07