GPSR Guides for Online Sellers

Every guide we have written on the EU General Product Safety Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/988), grouped by the question it answers. Each one is built from the official source it cites, and says so at the bottom of the page.

Marketplaces and platforms

What each marketplace asks for, where its fields are, and who counts as the seller when a platform makes the product.

• Etsy GPSR Manufacturer and Safety Information — What Etsy's GPSR manufacturer and safety information section asks for, where it is in the listing form, the shop-wide economic operator setting.
• GPSR and Online Marketplaces — What Article 22 of the General Product Safety Regulation requires of online marketplaces (Safety Gate Portal registration, listing fields.
• GPSR for Print-on-Demand Sellers — How the General Product Safety Regulation applies when Printful, Printify, Gelato or another print-on-demand partner makes your products: why…
• Amazon GPSR Requirements — What Amazon asks sellers for under GPSR: the eight requirements in its own announcement, which stores are affected, the Manage Your Compliance widget.
• eBay GPSR Requirements — What eBay asks business sellers for under GPSR, where each field sits in the listing form, eBay's limits on pictograms, statements and documents.
• GPSR for Amazon sellers — Amazon’s manufacturer, responsible person and safety attestation fields, and what goes in each.
• GPSR for Etsy sellers — The shop-level economic operator setting and the per-listing safety fields, for a shop selling into the EU.
• GPSR for eBay sellers — eBay’s document slots, including what belongs in the product safety "additional information" box.
• GPSR for Shopify stores — Selling direct rather than through a marketplace, so nobody else collects the information for you.
• GPSR for TikTok Shop sellers — What TikTok Shop asks EU sellers for, and where the responsible person details go.

Labelling and traceability

What has to appear on the product, its packaging and the listing, and in which language.

• GPSR Language Requirements — What GPSR says about language for instructions, warnings and online listings, and what Germany, France.
• GPSR Manufacturer Contact Details — Exactly which manufacturer details GPSR requires, where they go on the product and in online listings.
• GPSR Warning and Safety Information — What GPSR says about warnings and safety information: when they are required, the language rule, what must appear in online listings, digital formats.
• GPSR Label Requirements — What Regulation (EU) 2023/988 requires on a product or its packaging: the type, batch or serial number, manufacturer and importer details.
• GPSR Batch, Type and Serial Numbers — What the GPSR means by a "type, batch or serial number or other element allowing identification".
• GPSR label generator (free tool) — Label and listing text with the field names in seven EU languages. Free, nothing to sign up for.

Roles and responsibilities

Who you are under the regulation, who your EU contact is, and what each of you has to do.

• The GPSR Responsible Person — What Article 16 of the General Product Safety Regulation requires, who can act as the EU Responsible Person (EU manufacturer, importer.
• GPSR for Handmade Sellers — How the General Product Safety Regulation applies to makers and handmade sellers who sell to EU buyers: no small-business exemption.
• GPSR Accident Reporting and Recalls — What Article 20 of the General Product Safety Regulation requires when a product causes an accident: which accidents, who notifies.
• GPSR Product Recalls — What Regulation (EU) 2023/988 requires in a product safety recall: what triggers one, the duty to contact affected buyers directly using customer…
• GPSR for small businesses and sole traders — There is no small-business exemption: what a one-person business actually has to produce.

Documents, scope and special cases

What you have to prepare before you sell, and the products the regulation treats differently.

• GPSR Risk Assessment (Internal Risk Analysis) — What Article 9(2) of the General Product Safety Regulation requires: an internal risk analysis and technical documentation before sale.
• GPSR Compliance Checklist — A step-by-step GPSR checklist for sellers: who you are under the regulation, the EU economic operator, risk analysis and technical documentation.
• Is There a GPSR Certificate? — There is no GPSR certificate, no GPSR marking and no notified body. What the General Product Safety Regulation requires instead: an internal risk…
• GPSR and Second-Hand or Used Items — What the General Product Safety Regulation says about used, repaired, reconditioned and vintage products: the scope rule in Article 2.
• GPSR and Digital Products — What the General Product Safety Regulation says about non-tangible items, what the European Commission's 2025 guidelines say about apps and software.
• GPSR Exclusions — The nine product categories excluded by Article 2(2), how antiques are defined, what happens where other EU law already regulates a product.
• What a GPSR technical file contains — The Article 9 documentation categories, and what a complete file looks like before anyone asks for it.
• Technical file and risk assessment templates (free tool) — Printable templates for the internal risk analysis and the technical file index.
• Example evidence pack (free tool) — A full worked pack for a fictional product, so you can see what each section contains.

Countries and markets

The same regulation, and what each market adds on top of it.

• GPSR in Northern Ireland — The EU General Product Safety Regulation has applied in Northern Ireland since 13 December 2024, replacing the 2005 regulations there.
• GPSR for UK sellers shipping into the EU — Why a GB seller needs an EU responsible person, and what changes at the Northern Ireland border.
• GPSR on the German market — German-language safety information, the ProdSG amendment, marketplace blocking orders and Abmahnung warnings.
• GPSR on the French market — DGCCRF checks, French-language instructions under Loi Toubon, and the Triman and EPR duties GPSR does not cover.
• GPSR on the Dutch market — The NVWA as supervisor, the Dutch-language rule, and what the authority can ask a manufacturer for.
• GPSR on the Spanish market — Who carries out product safety checks, the Spanish-language labelling rule, and Catalan consumer information.
• GPSR for US sellers shipping to the EU — Selling into the EU from the United States: the EU responsible person, and what the listing has to show.