2.2. Link to EU harmonisation legislation and other EU legislation

The GPSR complements EU harmonisation legislation (10) and thus provides a safety net for all products placed or made available on EU markets. The GPSR applies to products that are placed or made available on the market insofar as there are no specific provisions with the same objective under EU law which regulate the safety of the products concerned. Where products are subject to specific safety requirements imposed by EU law, the GPSR applies only to those aspects, risks, or categories of risks, which are not covered by those requirements. With regard to products already subject to specific requirements imposed by EU harmonisation legislation: The following Chapters are applicable subject to the conditions listed above: The following chapters do not apply: The GPSR is interlinked with the Market Surveillance Regulation (12) in the sense that several of the provisions of that Regulation, notably those concerning the powers of market surveillance authorities, also apply to surveillance of products covered by the GPSR. (13) In addition, the GPSR naturally also has strong interlinks with other relevant EU legislation concerning illegal content online, including the Digital Services Act (14).

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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.