Product Safety Compliance Solutions

Manufacturers are primarily responsible for ensuring products are safe and compliant before market placement. Importers and distributors also have obligations, including verifying conformity, maintaining documentation, cooperating with authorities, and taking corrective action if safety risks are identified.

Companies must promptly assess the risk, inform relevant authorities, and implement corrective measures such as warnings, withdrawals, or recalls. Ongoing post-market monitoring and incident reporting are essential to demonstrate compliance and limit legal and reputational exposure.

Yes. Traceability is required by the GPSR in 3 ways:

1. The normal traceability obligation that already applies under harmonised legislation (LVD, EMC Directive, etc.) requiring manufacturers to provide information on their products (or packaging) placed on the market
2. Under the GPSR Article 15(3), upon request by the authorities, economic operators must identify:

1. any economic operator who has supplied your company with the product, or with a part, a component or any software embedded into the product; and
2. any economic operator to whom you have supplied the product.

You must be in a position to to present this information for a period of 6 years from the date of supply.

3. Article 18 refers to the possibility of the Commission establishing a traceability system for some products likely to present a serious risk to public health and safety that it can use to collect and store data, including by electronic means.

Information that will support product traceability is required under the new Regulation. The rule is however the same as that which applies under current EU harmonisation legislation, that is to say: manufacturers must ensure that their products bear a type, batch or serial number or other element enabling the identification of the product.

So the manufacturer has some discretion as to what element to include which allows identification of the product. This does not necessarily need to be a production batch number, provided that another identifier can be used that is easily visible and legible for consumers.

The UK Parliament has passed legislation which continues recognition of current EU requirements, including the CE marking for a range of products. This recognition has been extended indefinitely – so there is currently no cut-off point beyond which UKCA must be used. 

The EU markings and declaration of conformity are recognised by the UK, so the same declaration of conformity you use to market goods in accordance with EU regulatory requirements is acceptable in the UK, provided that it is in English, lists the regulations met and indicates how these have been met. You also have the option to use either the UKCA marking or the CE marking to place relevant products on the GB market.