GPSR - EU Customs procedures

[maturin.surprise]

There's been a lot of general talk about this, but I'm struggling to get any info on how it will actually work in a practical sense.

When an EU country receives a package, how will they determine if it complies with GPSR rules? There are no fields in the electronic data on RM's Click & Drop to include any of this data for example. Not even a single GPSR Compliance checkbox. All it has is Ebay's IOSS code. Sellers won't be physically printing any of this info to place inside parcels each time.

Will it be random spot checks? Will they have to look at the item name on the electronic data (if sellers have included it) or even worse, open up packages to begin researching whether it complies or not? Or are they going to entirely accept that international eBay imports will already be compliant by default, putting all their faith in eBay to enforce it?

[ojewellery]

We've (all of us sellers) not put CE marking information on outer packaging for customs to check - I'm not sure/ I can get my head around why with GPSR its thought to be a customs check activity?    

Particularly for sales via marketplaces with the platform IOSS there are other checks in place direct with the marketplace.

I have skim read way too much on it (GPSR) and my mind is rather muddied by cross information.  Has there been something specific about customs and GPSR from a reputable source?

[4_bathrooms]

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@maturin.surprise wrote:

When an EU country receives a package, how will they determine if it complies with GPSR rules?

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Where items sold via online marketplaces are concerned they don't need to check compliance. Online marketplaces are responsible for ensuring "non-compliant" items are not available to be sold to the EU and Northern Ireland in the first place. 

[maturin.surprise]

When I said Customs, I meant either Customs or some other body that might be checking up on whether online foreign marketplaces are doing what they should.

I've seen a lot of people worried that packages will be rejected/sent back from Europe. But if what you're saying is true and it's *entirely* going to be left to foreign marketplaces, then I guess if items are visible and a sale has been made there's absolutely nothing to worry about for sellers in terms of packages not getting delivered.

I just would have assumed there would have been at least some aspect of passing GPSR compliance through in the electronic details, but apparently there is none.

[fatbobfan]

With IOSS being processed electronically I thought the same, GPSR compliance/or confirmation of, would be a digital transaction. 

All good for sellers who can, 

Feel a bit of lightweight, but to be honest the subject fried my brain, big thanks to @4_bathrooms and the others for who given their time

[4_bathrooms]

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@maturin.surprise wrote:

I've seen a lot of people worried that packages will be rejected/sent back from Europe. But if what you're saying is true and it's *entirely* going to be left to foreign marketplaces, then I guess if items are visible and a sale has been made there's absolutely nothing to worry about for sellers in terms of packages not getting delivered.

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There is a global electronic customs data standard - no new fields will be added to that for consignments being sent to one customs territory. The EU-specific IOSS (which is separate) is only concerned with the declaration and payment of VAT for consignments up to €150 in value. I highly doubt the EU Commission will create another EU-specific electronic customs dataset to deal with GPSR; if they were planning to I'm pretty sure they would have announced it already.