Article 23 Identification of economic operators

Summary What does Article 23 of the CRA regulation say?

This article establishes a traceability obligation for all economic operators in the supply chain.

When requested by market surveillance authorities, operators must be able to identify both who supplied them with a product and, where known, who they supplied it to — effectively enabling authorities to trace a product's journey through the supply chain in both directions.

Important points:

Maintain records of both your upstream supplier and downstream customer for any product with digital elements.
This obligation applies to all economic operators, including manufacturers, importers, distributors, and authorised representatives.
Records must be retained and presentable for 10 years from the date of receipt and 10 years from the date of supply of the product.

Springlex's summary of the article, a reading aid, not a substitute for the legal text.

1. Economic operators shall, on request, provide the market surveillance authorities with the following information:
  1. the name and address of any economic operator who has supplied them with a product with digital elements;
  2. where available, the name and address of any economic operator to whom they have supplied a product with digital elements.
1. Economic operators shall be able to present the information referred to in paragraph 1 for 10 years after they have been supplied with the product with digital elements and for 10 years after they have supplied the product with digital elements.

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