The purpose of this Regulation is to improve the functioning of the internal market while ensuring a high level of consumer protection, establishing the fundamental safety rules for consumer products placed or made available on the market.
The Regulation, which comes into effect on December 13, 2024, obliges providers of online marketplace to implement internal processes aimed at ensuring product safety, enabling them to comply with the requirements of this Regulation immediately and without undue delay.
Upon receiving information about potentially unsafe products, providers of online marketplace services are required to remove such products, as well as identical ones, from their platforms. Additionally, after having issued a prior warning, they shall suspend services to traders who frequently offer products that do not comply with this Regulation for a reasonable period of time.
Sellers trading in used parts on the Ovoko platform must ensure compliance with the safety rules established by the Regulation.
More detailed information in the official journal of the European Union is available here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32023R0988
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