Since 13 December 2024, the EU's General Product Safety Regulation applies to every physical product sold to EU and Northern Ireland customers. Etsy and Amazon are enforcing it: listings without an EU Responsible Person and proper safety information get removed — and Etsy's own seller guidance says accounts can be suspended if authorities flag non-compliant products. This kit gives you everything you need to fix that in an afternoon.
One-time payment · Instant download · Templates you can reuse across every product
Forget the legalese. If you make or sell physical products to customers in the EU, here's what the regulation expects — and what marketplaces are now checking.
The good news: none of this requires a lawyer. It requires paperwork, done correctly, once — then reused for every product. That's exactly what this kit is.
Watch: a plain-English walkthrough of the GPSR requirements
A fill-in-the-blanks document pack built for handmade sellers — not generic corporate compliance decks.
A step-by-step, do-this-then-that checklist covering every GPSR obligation for a small seller: responsible person, labels, listings, risk assessment, documentation. Tick through it once per product line and you're covered.
Ready-to-fill label layouts with every required field — manufacturer block, responsible person block, batch identifier, warnings — plus language notes so you know what must be translated and what can stay as-is.
Copy-paste safety-information paragraphs and product-identifier formats for each platform's fields, so your listings carry everything marketplaces ask for.
The document most handmade sellers skip — and the one authorities can request. Fill-in tables with realistic examples for common handmade products, so you're not staring at a blank page.
What an EU Responsible Person actually does, who can be one, realistic cost expectations, and exactly what details go where on your listings and packaging.
A simple folder-and-document structure for the 10-year documentation the GPSR requires — what to keep, where to keep it, and how to produce it if an authority asks.
GPSR is the baseline law for everything — but each category has its own extra layers. The kit addresses both.
GPSR safety warnings and labelling plus the fragrance-specific layer: CLP hazard labelling for scented products, allergen disclosure, and safe-use instructions (wick trimming, burn time, never leave unattended).
Material disclosure and nickel/lead considerations, small-parts and choking-hazard warnings where relevant, and care instructions that double as safety information for skin-contact products.
GPSR sits alongside the EU Cosmetics Regulation: ingredient listing (INCI), responsible person requirements specific to cosmetics, and correct labelling of warnings and usage instructions.
The highest-scrutiny category. GPSR plus the Toy Safety Directive: age grading, choking-hazard warnings, CE marking, and stricter documentation expectations — all covered step by step.
Handmade soap labelling essentials: ingredient lists, net weight, usage and storage instructions, and allergen notes — mapped to both GPSR and cosmetics-rule expectations.
One afternoon with the kit, and your listings, labels, and paperwork are done — instead of weeks of piecing together blog posts and guessing.
GPSR Compliance Kit for Handmade Sellers
$24.99 one-time
Instant download. Use it for every product you sell.
No. This kit is general guidance based on the public text of Regulation (EU) 2023/988 and marketplace seller documentation. It is not legal advice, and it doesn't replace advice from a qualified professional for your specific situation.
Yes. The regulation applies to any economic operator placing consumer products on the EU market — there is no small-seller exemption. If you sell physical products to EU or Northern Ireland customers, you're in scope. Etsy and Amazon treat it as mandatory for EU-facing listings.
Probably not. The GPSR targets physical products and their safety risks. Etsy's own guidance suggests treating digital listings per their platform requirements, but the core obligations in this kit — labels, risk assessments, responsible person — are about physical goods. If you sell only digital products, this kit isn't for you.
No — a Responsible Person is a real legal appointment with ongoing duties, and it can't be bundled into a PDF. What the kit gives you is the setup guide: what they must do, who qualifies, what it typically costs, and exactly where their details go on your listings and packaging. Etsy also partners with third-party providers you can hire directly.
Free templates exist — Instilus, for example, offers genuinely useful free GPSR label and risk-assessment templates, and we link to them in our blog. The kit's value is that it's done for you: worked examples for handmade categories, platform-specific listing copy, and everything in one coherent pack instead of five scattered downloads you have to stitch together yourself.
A downloadable PDF document pack with fill-in templates you can print or complete digitally. Buy once, reuse for every product line you sell.
Then the GPSR doesn't apply to you — it's EU law, and excluding the EU and Northern Ireland from your shipping destinations takes you out of scope. That's a legitimate choice, but it means giving up a large market. Most sellers find an afternoon of compliance cheaper than losing EU buyers.
No honest product can promise that. What the kit does is make sure your documentation, labels, and listings meet the requirements marketplaces check for — which is the part you control. Platform enforcement decisions remain with the platforms and authorities.
Every week your listings run without GPSR documentation is a week you're one authority flag away from losing them. Fix it this afternoon.
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