General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR): Reminder of key information for UK sellers

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The General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) aims to ensure the sale of safe products to buyers in the European Union (EU) and Northern Ireland (NI). Before it comes into effect on 13 December 2024, we wanted to remind you of some key information.

Firstly, GPSR does not apply to sales to UK buyers, with the exception of Northern Ireland. So, eBay.co.uk listings offered for sale to non-Northern Ireland UK buyers will not be impacted by GPSR.

GPSR also requires that information is provided about products - there are no changes required to your account. In the case of missing GPSR information for a specific listing, we may put the listing in question on hold, or restrict its visibility in the EU and/or Northern Ireland. However, there should not be GPSR-related action at an account level unless a relevant amount of listings are reported or a seller repeatedly violates requirements after suitable warnings.

Impacted listing(s) will come off hold or have visibility restored when the required GPSR information is provided, unless there are other reasons the listing is on hold. There should not be any impact to that listing’s history or search ranking. If a listing is put on hold, we’ll be sure to reach out to sellers via email, message centre and other relevant channels.

Learn more about GPSR and how to ensure compliance via our dedicated Seller Centre page. 

Please note that the above summarises our current approach. As with all regulations, our approach may change as the regulatory environment evolves, in which case we’ll be sure to update sellers accordingly.

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