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Selling electronics and accessories to the EU: CE, RoHS, WEEE and GPSR

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

Electronics is the category where EU compliance is the deepest and where casually dropshipped products are most likely to be illegal. Anything with a plug, a battery or a radio module triggers CE requirements, chemical restrictions and electronic-waste registration before GPSR even enters the picture.

If you sell electronics or electronic accessories to EU customers from a Shopify store, here is the map of what applies, and what your listings must show since December 2024.

What every electronics and accessories 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 are the electronics-specific requirements?

Electronics must clear CE conformity, chemical restrictions, e-waste registration and battery rules before sale. The stack in order:

What does GPSR add on the listing?

On top of the CE stack, the GPSR requires the listing to show the manufacturer identity with postal and electronic address, an EU responsible person for non-EU brands (for CE products this role existed already under market surveillance rules), product identification, and warnings or safety information in the buyer's language: battery precautions, charging instructions, age restrictions where relevant.

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 electronics and accessories 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 electronics and accessories 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.