The third attempt was the right one: negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached a provisional political agreement on the evening of Monday 28 November, on the proposed EU regulation of June 2021 on the general safety of non-food products (the so-called ‘GPSR’) in the digital age.
The text, agreed after a third ‘trilogue’, aims to update EU rules by replacing an outdated 2001 directive to ensure that only safe products can be made available to...