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GPSR artikel 18: Specific traceability requirements for certain products, categories or groups of products
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CELEX 32023R0988 · 2026-08-22 · Weight 70 · minimal-risk
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- 2026-08-22Current
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What does GPSR Article 18 require, and what outcome does the rule tree give?
GPSR Article 18 is tested here by a deterministic rule tree of 14 rules, built from the article's own conditions. The tree reads your facts and names the outcome that applies, starting with Paragraph 1 applies, carrying paragraph citation, content hash and read date 2026-08-22 against CELEX 32023R0988. The outcome is a machine classification, not a compliance decision.
GPSR Article 18Checked against the publisher 2026-08-22Official text
- Paragraph 1 applies. 1. For certain products, categories or groups of products which are likely to present a serious risk to the health and safety of consumers, based on accidents registered in the Safety Business Gateway, the Safety Gate statistics, the results of the joint activities on product safety and other relevant indicators or evidence, and after consulting the Consumer Safety Network, relevant expert groups and relevant stakeho…
- Paragraph 2 applies. 2. The system of traceability shall consist of the collection and storage of data, including by electronic means, enabling the identification of the product, its components or of the economic operators involved in its supply chain, as well as in modalities to display and to access those data, including placement of a data carrier on the product, its packaging or accompanying documents.
- Paragraph 3 applies. 3. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 45 to supplement this Regulation by:
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- in_scopeThe article applies to the situationboolean
- punktParagraph of the articleenum (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14)
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If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 1)
Paragraph 1 applies
1. For certain products, categories or groups of products which are likely to present a serious risk to the health and safety of consumers, based on accidents registered in the Safety Business Gateway, the Safety Gate statistics, the results of the joint activities on product safety and other relevant indicators or evidence, and after consulting the Consumer Safety Network, relevant expert groups and relevant stakeho…
Paragraph 1
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 2)
Paragraph 2 applies
2. The system of traceability shall consist of the collection and storage of data, including by electronic means, enabling the identification of the product, its components or of the economic operators involved in its supply chain, as well as in modalities to display and to access those data, including placement of a data carrier on the product, its packaging or accompanying documents.
Paragraph 2
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 3)
Paragraph 3 applies
3. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 45 to supplement this Regulation by:
Paragraph 3
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 4)
Paragraph 4 applies
(a)
Paragraph 4
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 5)
Paragraph 5 applies
determining the products, categories or groups of products or components likely to present a serious risk to the health and safety of consumers as referred to in paragraph 1; the Commission shall state in the delegated acts concerned whether it has used the risk analysis methodology provided for in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/417 (30) or, if that methodology is not appropriate for the product concerned…
Paragraph 5
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 6)
Paragraph 6 applies
(b)
Paragraph 6
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 7)
Paragraph 7 applies
specifying the type of data which economic operators are to collect and store by means of the system of traceability referred to in paragraph 2;
Paragraph 7
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 8)
Paragraph 8 applies
(c)
Paragraph 8
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 9)
Paragraph 9 applies
specifying the modalities to display and to access data, including placement of a data carrier on the product, its packaging or accompanying documents as referred to in paragraph 2;
Paragraph 9
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 10)
Paragraph 10 applies
(d)
Paragraph 10
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 11)
Paragraph 11 applies
specifying the actors that shall have access to the data as referred to in point (b) and to what data they shall have access, including consumers, economic operators, providers of online marketplaces, competent national authorities, the Commission, and public interest organisations, or any organisation acting on their behalf.
Paragraph 11
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 12)
Paragraph 12 applies
4. Market surveillance authorities, consumers, economic operators and other relevant actors shall have access free of charge to the data referred to in paragraph 3 based on their respective access rights set out in the applicable delegated act adopted pursuant to paragraph 3, point (d).
Paragraph 12
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 13)
Paragraph 13 applies
5. When adopting the measures referred to in paragraph 3, the Commission shall take into account:
Paragraph 13
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 14)
Paragraph 14 applies
(a)
Paragraph 14
If no rule matches: The article is not stated to apply, or no paragraph is selected. The agent abstains rather than guesses.
The article text as read
- 11. For certain products, categories or groups of products which are likely to present a serious risk to the health and safety of consumers, based on accidents registered in the Safety Business Gateway, the Safety Gate statistics, the results of the joint activities on product safety and other relevant indicators or evidence, and after consulting the Consumer Safety Network, relevant expert groups and relevant stakeholders, the Commission may set up a system of traceability to which economic operators who place and make available those products on the market shall adhere.
- 22. The system of traceability shall consist of the collection and storage of data, including by electronic means, enabling the identification of the product, its components or of the economic operators involved in its supply chain, as well as in modalities to display and to access those data, including placement of a data carrier on the product, its packaging or accompanying documents.
- 33. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 45 to supplement this Regulation by:
- 4(a)
- 5determining the products, categories or groups of products or components likely to present a serious risk to the health and safety of consumers as referred to in paragraph 1; the Commission shall state in the delegated acts concerned whether it has used the risk analysis methodology provided for in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/417 (30) or, if that methodology is not appropriate for the product concerned, it shall give a detailed description of the methodology used;
- 6(b)
- 7specifying the type of data which economic operators are to collect and store by means of the system of traceability referred to in paragraph 2;
- 8(c)
- 9specifying the modalities to display and to access data, including placement of a data carrier on the product, its packaging or accompanying documents as referred to in paragraph 2;
- 10(d)
- 11specifying the actors that shall have access to the data as referred to in point (b) and to what data they shall have access, including consumers, economic operators, providers of online marketplaces, competent national authorities, the Commission, and public interest organisations, or any organisation acting on their behalf.
- 124. Market surveillance authorities, consumers, economic operators and other relevant actors shall have access free of charge to the data referred to in paragraph 3 based on their respective access rights set out in the applicable delegated act adopted pursuant to paragraph 3, point (d).
- 135. When adopting the measures referred to in paragraph 3, the Commission shall take into account:
- 14(a)
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Citation: 32023R0988 art. 18, Specific traceability requirements for certain products, categories or groups of products. ExploreWorld Legal, https://legal.exploreworldai.com/agent/produktsakerhet-2023-988/artikel-18 (hämtad 2026-08-22, bevis sha256:5b78a4049f505946, bygge legal-2026-08-25).