Retail and wholesale

Amendments for your sector

Yet to come into effect (8)

GPSR: new rules for product safety

Effective date: 13 december 2024

Do you sell non-food consumer products in the EU and Northern Ireland? You must comply with new product safety rules when the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) takes effect. The GPSR protects...

USB-C mandatory for all portable devices

Effective date: 28 december 2024

Do you manufacture, import, or sell electronic devices? Small and medium-sized electronic devices that can be charged via a wired connection must have a USB Type-C port. USB-C is the mandatory...

Ban on cash payments over €3,000

Effective date: 31 maart 2025

Do you often pay large amounts in banknotes? The government intends to ban cash payments for amounts of over €3,000. This ban applies to traders (professional or commercial buyers and vendors of...

Security of smart devices must be improved

Effective date: 1 augustus 2025

Do you manufacture or sell smart devices? There will be minimum requirements to ensure the digital security of devices connected to the internet – Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These new rules...

Plain packaging for vapes and cigars

Effective date: not yet known

Do you sell cigars and e-cigarettes (vapes)? Soon these products will have to be sold in neutral packaging. This plain packaging requirement already applies to cigarettes and rolling tobacco since...

Registration duty for tobacco outlets

Effective date: 2024

Do you sell tobacco and related products, such as e-cigarettes? If so, you will soon have to register your sales outlet. From 2024, a registration duty applies to outlets selling tobacco and smoking...

Digital register for second-hand traders

Effective date: not yet known

Do you buy or trade second-hand goods? You will have to register both the goods and the people offering the goods in a digital traders register (Digitaal Opkopersregister, DOR). In some...

Preventing child labour

Effective date: not yet known

Do you sell products or services? You have to make sure that these do not involve child labour at any stage. You have to be able to show that you are doing what is needed to prevent child labour. If...

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