Product Compliance with EU Ecodesign & General Product Safety Regulations (Document Structure)

Описание: Renaud from Sofeast walks you through which documents are required to prove compliance with EU regulations that are coming in now in 2023 and will be law by 2025 in this whiteboard video.

If you manufacture products abroad and import them into the EU these regulations WILL affect you.

You'll need to prepare to gather and create information for the following documentation:
Digital Product passport
DoC (declaration of conformity)
Technical folder

You will see the structure of these documents and how they relate to you, the importer, and your supply chain in this video. You will notice that you probably need to make the supply chain a lot more transparent than before.

The points are based on his understanding of 2 regulations:

► Ecodesign for sustainable products: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/syst... (applicable to all products except food and feed)

"The proposal also includes the creation of a digital product passport to electronically register, process and share product-related information amongst supply chain businesses, authorities and consumers. This is expected to increase transparency, both for supply chain businesses and for the general public, and increase efficiencies in terms of information transfer. In particular, it is likely to help facilitate and streamline the monitoring and enforcement of the regulation carried out by EU and Member State authorities."

► EU General Product Safety Regulation: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conte... (applicable to products that are not within the scope of a CE marking directive/regulation)

Internal processes for managing product compliance:

"In order to prevent the placing on the market of dangerous products, it should be compulsory for economic operators to include in their production or marketing activities internal processes ensuring compliance with the relevant requirements of this Regulation. Such internal processes should be determined by economic operators themselves in relation to their role in the supply chain and the type of products concerned and can be based, for example, upon organisational procedures, guidelines, standards or upon the appointment of an ad hoc manager. The establishment and format of such internal processes should remain the sole responsibility of relevant economic operators."

The obligation to manage incidents about product safety, and to have a plan in place:

"In order to be able to comply with their obligations under this Regulation, in particular in respect of the timely and effective compliance with the orders of public authorities, the processing of notices of other third parties and cooperation with market surveillance authorities in the context of corrective measures upon request, providers of online marketplaces should have in place an internal mechanism for handling product safety-related issues."

A declaration of conformity (DoC) will probably also be a requirement under that regulation.

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Learn more about the ecodesign regulation here: https://www.sofeast.com/knowledgebase...

We discuss how more supply chain transparency will be needed here: https://www.sofeast.com/knowledgebase...

Sofeast's supply chain management team can support you to assess your supply chains and prepare for ecodesign compliance: https://www.sofeast.com/supply-chain-...