36 2024 TSMA Dr. Jochen M. Schaefer Legal Counsel The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry IMPORTANT TO KNOW: The New Forthcoming EU General Product Safety Regulation (“GPSR”) Will Raise the Bar to be in bold Compliance with EU Safety Standards Introduction: Taiwanese sporting goods manufacturers and exporters in particular TSMA member companies are very well known for their strive for excellence and high-quality products also in Europe in particular in the fitness equipment sector. The Taiwan S-Team Elite League initiative clearly demonstrates this. High-quality goes hand-in-hand with product safety and warranting product safety is an element which clearly differentiates internationally successful commercial operators from others trying to make a quick buck by attempting to sell products with inferior quality, which very frequently also are raising safety concerns. If you are engaged in business with Europe, you certainly do not want that your products are listed as being unsafe in the Safety Gate online portal (, the EU’s rapid alert system for dangerous nonfood products, like just one example out of one of many shown here: In this specific case the EU authorities ordered the withdrawal of the unsafe product from the market and recall measures to be taken by the European distributor to have such returned by the end-users if al-
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