Article 2 — Scope
General Product Safety Regulation — Regulation (EU) 2023/988
What does GPSR Article 2 say?
Short answer, straight from the official text
1. This Regulation applies to products that are placed or made available on the market insofar as there are no specific provisions with the same objective under Union law which regulate the safety of the products concerned.
Source: General Product Safety Regulation — Regulation (EU) 2023/988, read 2026-09-26.
| In the act | EU 2023/988 |
| Chapter | I · General provisions |
| CELEX | 32023R0988 |
| Read on | 2026-09-26 |
Official text
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1. This Regulation applies to products that are placed or made available on the market insofar as there are no specific provisions with the same objective under Union law which regulate the safety of the products concerned.
Where products are subject to specific safety requirements imposed by Union law, this Regulation applies only to those aspects and risks or categories of risks which are not covered by those requirements.
With regard to products subject to specific requirements imposed by Union harmonisation legislation as defined in Article 3, point (27):
(a) Chapter II does not apply insofar as the risks or categories of risks covered by Union harmonisation legislation are concerned;
(b) Chapter III, Section 1, Chapters V and VII and Chapters IX to XI do not apply.
2. This Regulation does not apply to:
(a) medicinal products for human or veterinary use;
(b) food;
(c) feed;
(d) living plants and animals, genetically modified organisms and genetically modified microorganisms in contained use, as well as products of plants and animals relating directly to their future reproduction;
(e) animal by-products and derived products;
(f) plant protection products;
(g) equipment on which consumers ride or travel where that equipment is directly operated by a service provider within the context of a transport service provided to consumers and is not operated by the consumers themselves;
(h) aircraft referred to in Article 2(3), point (d) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139;
(i) antiques.
The article continues in the official text.
Other articles in this chapter
The same rule in other acts
These articles carry the same official heading. The wording is not identical; read each text at its own source.
- AI Act Article 2 — Scope
- NIS2 Article 2 — Scope
- DSA Article 2 — Scope
- PSD2 Article 2 — Scope
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