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The General Product Safety Regulation requires covered products to have a responsible person related to them who is located in the EU. If your business is based in the US, the UK or other countries outside the EU, your company cannot fulfil the role of a responsible person.

Thus, in order to sell products directly to EU consumers from outside the EU, you must appoint an authorised representative to be the responsible person for your products.

In this guide, we cover the common questions related to the role of the authorised representative and the type of businesses that need them.
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Article 4 and 5 of the Market Surveillance Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 requires that companies established outside the EU, but selling certain products to consumers in the single market, must have an authorised representative – in particular products that require CE marking.

In practice, this means that non-EU companies pay EU entities to act as their authorised representative. Further, the packaging must also include the name and address of the authorised representative.

In this guide, we explain how this works in practice, and what the consequences can be if you don’t have an authorised representative.

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1. This guide only covers EU AR requirements within the scope of the Market Surveillance Regulation (EU) 2019/1020. If you are looking for authorised representative requirements concerning medical devices, then you can find the relevant article here.

2. This guide covers authorised representative requirements in the UK.

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