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COMMISSION NOTICE Guidelines on the application of the EU general product safety legislative framework by businesses · European Union

Economic operators: the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer, the distributor, the fulfilment service provider or any other natural or legal person who is subject to obligations in relation to the manufacturing of products or making products available on the market in accordance with the GPSR. The manufacturer is any natural or legal person who manufactures a product or who has a product designed or manufactured, and markets that product under that person’s name or trademark; The authorised representative is any natural or legal person established within the EU who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on that manufacturer’s behalf in relation to specified tasks with regard to the manufacturer’s obligations under the GPSR; The importer is any natural or legal person established within the EU who places a product from a third country on the EU market; The distributor is any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes a product available on the market; The fulfilment service provider is any natural or legal person who offers at least two of the following services in the course of a commercial activity: warehousing, packaging, addressing or dispatching, without having ownership of the products involved, excluding postal services as defined in Article 2 point (1) of Directive 97/67/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, parcel delivery services as defined in Article 2 point (2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/644 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and any other postal services or freight transport services; The responsible person for products placed on the EU market (‘responsible person’) is an economic operator established in the EU who is responsible for the tasks set out in Article 4(3) of the Market Surveillance Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2019/1020) and in the GPSR (see point 3.2 for details on these tasks).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.