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GPSR requirements for bags and leather goods sold to the EU

By Karim El Achaq, founder of EUReady · Last updated: 6 July 2026

Bags and leather goods rarely think of themselves as regulated products. Yet EU chemical rules directly target leather and metal hardware, and since December 2024 the GPSR defines what every listing sold to EU consumers must display, whether the bag comes from a Florence workshop or a print-on-demand supplier.

What every bags and leather goods listing must show under GPSR

Since 13 December 2024, the General Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988 sets rules for products sold online to EU consumers. Article 19 is the part that hits your product pages directly: every online listing must display, before purchase, the following information.

The same information also has to travel with the physical product (on the item, its packaging or an accompanying document), so your labels and your Shopify pages need to match.

What rules apply to bags and leather goods?

Bags run on two layers: REACH chemical limits on leather and hardware, and the GPSR listing information. The specifics:

What does compliance look like in practice?

For most adult bags the warnings section stays minimal; the compliance work is really about traceability (who made it, where they can be reached), an EU responsible person if you are outside the EU, and being able to show your tannery or hardware supplier documentation if asked.

Do not forget the packaging: EPR applies too

GPSR covers the product. The box, mailer, tape and filler you ship it in fall under a different set of rules: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging. If you ship bags and leather goods to consumers in Germany you must be registered in the LUCID packaging register before your first sale, and in France you need a unique identifier via an eco-organisation such as Citeo (see our France EPR guide). Marketplaces already verify these numbers and block sellers who do not have them.

How to make your Shopify store compliant, step by step

1. List what you sell to the EU. GPSR applies to new, used, repaired and handmade bags and leather goods alike. There is no minimum volume: one parcel to an EU customer is enough to be in scope.
2. Gather the manufacturer information. Your business name, postal address and email if you are the maker; your supplier's details if you resell.
3. Appoint an EU responsible person if you are outside the EU. Authorised representative services exist from roughly 150 to 500 euros per year. Their details go on your listings and labels. Our responsible person guide explains the options.
4. Write the warnings and safety information relevant to your products, and translate them for the markets you sell to.
5. Add all of it to every product page. On Shopify this is usually done with metafields plus a theme block, so the information displays cleanly on each listing.
6. Sort out packaging EPR for Germany and France if you ship there.

Doing this by hand across a full catalog is where most sellers give up: it is repetitive, error-prone and easy to leave half-finished. That is the exact problem EUReady automates: scan, see what is missing per product, fix it across the catalog in one click.

This guide is general information for online sellers, based on publicly available EU legislation. It is not legal advice. Regulations evolve and national rules differ: for decisions that matter to your business, confirm with a qualified professional or the official sources linked above.