EU General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR, Regulation 2023/988)
GPSR - Safety Requirements and Assessment (Ch II)

EU General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR, Regulation 2023/988) GPSR-Art.5_6_7_8: General safety requirement and assessment criteria (Articles 5-8)

Article 5 establishes the general safety requirement: economic operators shall place or make available on the market only safe products. Article 6 sets the criteria for assessing safety: the characteristics of the product including its composition, packaging, instructions for assembly and, where applicable, installation, use and maintenance; the effect on other products where it is reasonably foreseeable that it will be used with other products; the effect that other products might have on the product; the presentation of the product, the labelling, any warnings; the categories of consumers at risk when using the product, in particular vulnerable consumers such as children, older people and persons with disabilities; the appearance of the product where it could lead consumers to use the product in a way different from the one for which it was intended; the cybersecurity features necessary to protect the product against external influences, including malicious third parties, where these have a bearing on the safety of the product. Article 7 sets the presumption of conformity (where the product is in conformity with European standards or parts thereof referenced in the OJ, or with national requirements in absence of EU standards). Article 8 adds additional assessment elements (state of the art, conformity with voluntary standards, codes of conduct, reasonable consumer-safety expectations).

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This control maps to 5 controls across 4 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

  • PLD-Art.10 Defectiveness (PLD Article 10) - factor-based assessment
  • PLD-Art.10-Cyber Cybersecurity-related defect (PLD Article 10(f) + Recital 38) - coordination with CRA + GPSR
  • s106 s 106 Do not supply, offer, make, hold or export consumer goods that fail a mandatory safety standard
  • CRA-Art.13_AnnexI Manufacturer obligations and essential requirements (Article 13 + Annex I)
  • MR-Art.8_9 Essential health and safety requirements and sectoral coordination (Articles 8-9 + Annex III)

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