Attachment to the Market Surveillance Regulation Consultation

The European Environmental Bureau calls for a strengthened Market Surveillance Regulation

The growth of e-commerce has a huge impact on how products are placed on the EU market. It leads to regulatory and enforcement gaps that are increasingly enabling the influx of non-compliant and dangerous products, particularly in high-risk sectors such as cosmetics.

This is why we call for a strengthened Market Surveillance Regulation (MSR) that explicitly and effectively addresses online sales, assigns greater responsibilities to online marketplaces, and strengthens enforcement capacities across the EU. The revision of the MSR is a critical opportunity to ensure that what is illegal offline cannot be sold online, to close existing loopholes, and to restore a level playing field for compliant economic operators.