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The Toys Digital Product Passport: a B2B Compliance Manual for the Revised EU Toy Safety Regulation

From EN 71 mechanical, flammability and chemical testing through REACH SVHC declarations, phthalate caps and notified-body conformity assessment to digital warning labels and battery-compartment safety — every toy placed on the EU market for children under fourteen will carry a Digital Product Passport. This pillar is the operational reference for toy manufacturers, importers, EU authorised representatives and distributors.

The European Union toy market is worth more than 33 billion euros at retail and clears more than 4 billion individual units across borders every year, the largest single share of which is imported and re-warehoused before reaching a child. Behind that volume sits the most safety-driven product regime the bloc enforces on a non-medical consumer good: Directive 2009/48/EC, the Toy Safety Directive (TSD), in force since July 2011, layered on top of REACH, CLP, the RoHS Directive for electrical toys, the Battery Regulation 2023/1542 for any toy containing cells, and the Radio Equipment Directive for any toy that communicates wirelessly. In July 2023 the European Commission tabled the revised Toy Safety Regulation (proposal COM(2023) 462 final), which converts the TSD into a directly applicable Regulation, extends restricted-substance scope to endocrine disruptors, PFAS and the full CMR family, mandates a Digital Product Passport for every toy placed on the Union market, and replaces the printed warning label with a digital equivalent reachable through a QR code or NFC tag carried on the product, the packaging or the instructions. Adoption is expected during 2025; phased applicability runs from 2027 into the first quarter of 2028. For every manufacturer, EU importer and brand-owner placing toys on the Single Market, the question is no longer whether a toys DPP applies, but how to implement it without breaking existing EN 71 test workflows, duplicating data already produced for the EU Declaration of Conformity, or losing audit trail in the handover between contract factories, notified bodies and national market surveillance authorities. This pillar maps the legal stack, defines the data model and shows how a single passport unifies regulatory, retailer and recycler stakeholders in parallel.

  • July 2011Done

    Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC applicable

    Directive 2009/48/EC, the Toy Safety Directive (TSD), became fully applicable on 20 July 2011 and replaced the prior 1988 framework. It defines a toy as any product designed or intended, whether or not exclusively, for use in play by children under fourteen years of age. It sets essential safety requirements for mechanical and physical properties, flammability, chemical properties, electrical safety, hygiene and radioactivity. It introduces the CE marking conformity-assessment route via Modules A (internal production control), B (EU type-examination) and C (conformity to type), allocates obligations across manufacturers, authorised representatives, importers and distributors, and binds the toy industry to the EN 71 series of harmonised standards as the presumption-of-conformity vehicle. Every toy placed on the EU market today is governed by the TSD until the revised Regulation enters into force.

  • 28 July 2023Done

    Revised Toy Safety Regulation proposed (COM(2023) 462 final)

    The European Commission published the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the safety of toys, replacing Directive 2009/48/EC. The proposal addresses four shortcomings identified during the 2020 evaluation: insufficient protection against harmful chemicals, gaps in enforcement, the rise of online sales of non-compliant imports, and the absence of a digital information layer. The text extends substance restrictions to endocrine disruptors, PFAS, persistent organic pollutants and the full CMR Category 1A, 1B and 2 family beyond the current Annex II Appendix C. It mandates a Digital Product Passport carrying the EU Declaration of Conformity, warnings, identification, traceability data and safety instructions, made accessible through a machine-readable data carrier. It strengthens market surveillance powers and creates a customs interface so non-compliant toys can be stopped at the EU external border before they reach a child.

  • 2025Done

    Adoption expected — political agreement reached

    The European Parliament and the Council are expected to reach political agreement and adopt the revised Toy Safety Regulation during 2025, following ordinary-legislative-procedure trilogue. The text will be published in the Official Journal and enter into force on the twentieth day after publication. The bulk of obligations enter a transition period of thirty months, during which manufacturers must redesign their compliance dossiers and information flows, notified bodies must update their certification scope, market surveillance authorities must commission DPP-aware enforcement tooling and the toy industry must roll out unique-identifier infrastructure, data carriers and the secure-exchange channels that connect factory-floor test results to the public DPP.

  • First half 2027Next deadline

    First DPP-linked requirements applicable

    From the first applicability milestone (provisionally H1 2027 in the published Commission roadmap), the early DPP-linked obligations begin to bite: every new toy placed on the Union market must carry a unique product identifier and a data carrier (QR code or equivalent) that resolves to the DPP, the EU Declaration of Conformity becomes a DPP-attached document, and the digital warning-label regime starts to substitute for paper-only equivalents. Toys placed on the market before this date may continue to circulate under the previous TSD regime until exhaustion of stock, but importers and distributors moving new SKUs into warehousing after the deadline must onboard the DPP infrastructure or face market-surveillance detention.

  • Q1 2028Upcoming

    Full enforcement — TSR fully applicable

    Thirty months after entry into force the revised Toy Safety Regulation is fully applicable across all twenty-seven Member States. Directive 2009/48/EC is repealed. Every economic operator in the toy value chain — manufacturer, EU authorised representative, importer, fulfilment-service provider and online-marketplace operator placing toys under their own brand — bears full DPP obligations. National market surveillance authorities (ANSES in France, BfR in Germany, AGCM and MISE in Italy, AECOSAN in Spain, UOKiK in Poland and equivalents) operate against a harmonised DPP query interface and can block non-compliant SKUs at port of entry or trigger SafetyGate (formerly RAPEX) rapid-alert recalls based on DPP-resolved data.

  • 2028-2030Upcoming

    Substance-restriction phase-ins and battery-passport federation

    The revised TSR introduces a layered phase-in for new substance restrictions: tighter migration limits for the EN 71-3 elements (lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, antimony, barium, chromium VI), an expanded prohibition on CMR Category 1A/1B/2 substances in accessible parts, new caps on phthalates beyond the existing six (DEHP, DBP, BBP, DINP, DIDP, DNOP), explicit bans on endocrine disruptors named in the candidate list and on intentionally added PFAS, and tightened controls on fragrance allergens listed in EN 71-9 to EN 71-12. In parallel, any toy containing one or more batteries becomes subject to the Battery Regulation 2023/1542 federation requirement: the toy DPP must cryptographically link to one or more battery passports through a battery UPI, exposing cell chemistry, capacity, securing mechanism for button cells and end-of-life routing.

Required data

Every field the toys DPP schema demands.

  • Product Identification
    GTIN / EAN-13, internal SKU, model name and version
  • Unique Product Identifier (UPI) and Unique Item Identifier (UII) for serialised items
  • Brand / Manufacturer Name + Registered Address
  • EU Importer / EU Authorised Representative + Address (TSR Art. 7-8)
  • Fulfilment-Service Provider and Online-Marketplace Operator identifiers where applicable
  • Age Grading
    0-3 / 3-8 / 8-14 / 14+ with rationale tied to EN 71-1 Annex A use scenario
  • Warning Labels
    small-parts warning (0+3+T), magnets, sound-pressure-level, suffocation-bag, projectile and ride-on warnings
  • Digital Warning Label
    full text per Member-State language, machine-readable and DPP-resolvable
  • Material Composition
    bill of materials at homogeneous-material level with CAS numbers
  • Restricted Substances Disclosure
    REACH SVHC list compliance above 0.1% w/w (Article 33)
  • Phthalate Content Declaration
    DEHP, DBP, BBP, DINP, DIDP, DNOP (REACH Annex XVII Entry 51-52)
  • Heavy Metals Migration Test Results
    EN 71-3 (lead, cadmium, chromium VI, arsenic, antimony, barium, mercury, selenium and 11 other elements)
  • Mechanical and Physical Safety Test Results
    EN 71-1 (sharp edges, small parts, projectiles, drop and torque tests)
  • Flammability Test Results
    EN 71-2 (textile, mask, costume and stuffed-toy ignition behaviour)
  • Chemical Compound Test Results
    EN 71-9, EN 71-10 and EN 71-11 (organic chemical compounds, sample preparation, methods of analysis)
  • Fragrance Allergen Declaration
    55 listed allergens per TSD Annex II Appendix C, prohibition and labelling thresholds
  • CMR Substance Declaration
    Category 1A, 1B and 2 per CLP Regulation 1272/2008
  • Battery Compartment Safety
    button-cell securing mechanism, accessibility test per EN 62115 cl. 14.6
  • Electrical Safety
    EN 62115 conformity for electric toys, including LED, motor and heating-element data
  • Sound Pressure Level Test Results
    EN 71-1 cl. 4.20 for hand-held, table-top, ear-proximity and squeeze toys
  • Radio Equipment Directive (RED) conformity for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or RFID-enabled toys
  • RoHS Declaration of Conformity for electrical or electronic toys (Directive 2011/65/EU)
  • Battery Passport Federation
    cross-reference to battery DPP via battery UPI (Battery Regulation 2023/1542)
  • CE Marking Conformity Module
    A (internal production control), B (EU type-examination) and notified body identification number
  • EU Declaration of Conformity (DoC) document attached to DPP
  • Notified Body identifier, certification scope and expiry where Module B applies
  • Country and Date of Manufacture, factory identifier
  • Packaging Composition and Recyclability Declaration (PPWR alignment)
  • Instructions for Use and Safety Information in all required Member-State languages

Scope is broader than most manufacturers initially assume. The revised TSR retains the TSD definition of a toy: any product designed or intended, whether or not exclusively, for use in play by children under fourteen years of age. This pulls in classic categories — plush and stuffed toys, dolls, action figures, ride-on toys, push-and-pull toys, construction sets, modelling clay, wooden toys, plastic toys, board and card games, jigsaw puzzles, musical toys, toy weapons, water toys, outdoor and garden toys, costumes, masks, role-play sets, science kits and experimental sets — and increasingly includes the electronic and connected categories: battery-operated learning tablets, interactive plush, robotic toys, RC vehicles, drones marketed for children, and educational coding kits with embedded microcontrollers. The obligation runs through the full economic-operator chain: the manufacturer signs the EU Declaration of Conformity and bears primary DPP responsibility; the EU authorised representative carries the obligation when the manufacturer is non-EU; the importer must verify DPP existence before placing the toy on the market; the distributor must check the data carrier and traceability before commercial release; the fulfilment-service provider and the online-marketplace operator inherit obligations when they place toys on the market under their own brand or list non-compliant offers. Out of scope are products explicitly excluded from the TSD: playground equipment for public use (EN 1176), sports equipment that is not a toy (such as bicycles for children over a defined size), aquatic equipment intended for use in deep water, dolls of folkloric or decorative value clearly intended for adult collectors, collectible Christmas decorations, certain scale models for adult collectors not intended for play, and puzzles with more than 500 pieces (typically adult-targeted). Many borderline cases — figurines that double as cake toppers, tabletop wargaming miniatures, premium adult-collector dolls — require a documented intent-and-use assessment in the technical file to defend an out-of-scope claim against a market-surveillance challenge.

A toys DPP project for a mid-size manufacturer or importer typically runs nine to fifteen months from kickoff to first compliant SKU. Phase one (months 1-2) covers regulatory scoping, portfolio prioritisation by age category and risk profile, and a data-gap analysis mapping every required DPP field against existing PLM, PIM, QMS and supplier-portal sources. Phase two (months 3-5) is data-model implementation: aligning ERP material masters with the harmonised EU toy vocabulary, integrating lab-test data feeds from EN 71-1, EN 71-2, EN 71-3 and EN 71-9-12 reports, structuring BOM data at homogeneous-material granularity, ingesting REACH SVHC declarations and phthalate test results from suppliers in IPC-1752A or equivalent format, and capturing battery-compartment securing-mechanism data for any toy that contains cells. Phase three (months 6-9) deploys the DPP platform itself: unique-identifier generation against the harmonised EU UPI scheme, data-carrier printing or NFC encoding on the toy, the packaging or the instructions (the TSR permits all three), public and authority-restricted access tiers, audit logging, cryptographic anchoring against tampering, and the secure ingestion pipeline that connects the contract-factory ERP to the EcoPass repository. Phase four (months 10-12) is integration and pilot, with a single SKU placed on the market under the new passport regime and end-to-end validation by the notified body where Module B applies. Phase five (months 13-15) extends rollout across the portfolio with template-based scaling, supplier onboarding accelerators and federation against any battery passport, electronics RoHS DoC or RED conformity record that the SKU carries.

Risks

What non-compliance actually costs.

Risk

SafetyGate (RAPEX) rapid-alert recall on a non-compliant SKU

Consequence

SafetyGate, the EU rapid-alert system for dangerous non-food products, lists toys as the single most-notified category year after year, with chemical and choking-hazard non-compliances dominating. A SafetyGate listing triggers cross-Member-State recall, customs blocking at port of entry, retailer delisting within twenty-four to seventy-two hours and class-action exposure under the new Product Liability Directive 2024/2853. Without a DPP, manufacturers cannot quickly demonstrate which batches are affected, where they were sold and how to remediate; with a DPP and proper batch-level traceability the recall can be scoped, executed and closed within days rather than weeks.

Mitigation

Batch-level UPI, full EN 71 test-data linkage in the DPP, automated SafetyGate-reporting integration, retailer notification workflow, and per-batch quarantine and replace-or-refund flow keyed off the data carrier.

Risk

Customs detention at the EU external border

Consequence

From the first TSR applicability milestone, customs authorities query the DPP at port of entry against the harmonised customs-DPP interface. A toy without a resolvable DPP, with a broken cryptographic anchor or with a missing EU Declaration of Conformity is detained on the spot. For importers running just-in-time stock against seasonal peaks (Christmas, back-to-school, summer outdoor) a single detention week can wipe out an entire SKU's commercial year and lock working capital in bonded warehousing.

Mitigation

Pre-shipment DPP completeness check, customs-interface dry runs, EU Declaration of Conformity attached to every DPP, and a backup notified-body channel for Module B certificate renewals.

Risk

Restricted-substance non-compliance under REACH, CLP or TSR Annex II

Consequence

The revised TSR tightens substance restrictions on heavy metals migration (EN 71-3 elements), phthalates, CMR Cat 1A/1B/2 substances, endocrine disruptors and intentionally added PFAS. A single non-compliant batch — for example a plush-toy textile dyed with an aniline above the migration limit, or a soft-PVC component containing DEHP above 0.1% w/w — exposes the manufacturer to recall under SafetyGate, fines under national market-surveillance regimes (up to 4% of EU annual turnover in some Member States), and class-action exposure under the new Product Liability Directive.

Mitigation

Substance-engine ingestion of supplier IPC-1752A declarations, automatic flag against REACH Annex XVII, CLP CMR list, EN 71-3 migration limits and TSR Annex II thresholds, plus pre-production batch-test gating before any SKU is released to the warehouse.

Risk

Battery-compartment safety failure for toys with button cells

Consequence

Button-cell ingestion is one of the highest-severity paediatric injuries documented in EU emergency rooms. EN 62115 cl. 14.6 and the related EN 71 small-parts test prescribe specific securing mechanisms (screwed lid, double-action lock) for any battery compartment accessible to a child under three. A securing-mechanism failure surfaced in post-market surveillance triggers SafetyGate, immediate withdrawal, and in several Member States criminal liability under national child-safety statutes.

Mitigation

Battery-compartment design review against EN 62115 cl. 14.6 in the DPP, supplier-declared securing-mechanism type, and federation against the corresponding battery passport carrying cell chemistry and end-of-life routing.

Risk

Online-marketplace listing of non-compliant or counterfeit toys

Consequence

Article 4 of the Market Surveillance Regulation 2019/1020 and Article 30b of the Digital Services Act make online-marketplace operators co-responsible for non-compliant products listed on their platforms. From TSR enforcement, marketplaces will be required to query the DPP before publishing any toy listing and to take down listings whose DPP fails resolution, has an expired notified-body certificate or carries a flagged substance. Brands without DPP infrastructure will simply not be listed.

Mitigation

DPP-as-marketplace-pre-flight integration, automated re-issuance of expiring notified-body certificates, and a single canonical DPP per SKU referenced by every marketplace listing across Amazon, Otto, FNAC, MediaMarkt, Allegro and equivalents.

Risk

Notified-body certificate expiry or scope drift

Consequence

Module B EU type-examination certificates issued by notified bodies (TÜV SÜD, LNE, SGS, Intertek, BSI, IMQ and equivalents) have finite validity and a narrowly scoped product family. A model variant, a new colourway with a different pigment system or a soldering-process change can fall outside the certificate's scope and silently invalidate the EU Declaration of Conformity. Without a DPP-backed change-control flag, the manufacturer continues to place product on the market under an effectively void certificate.

Mitigation

Notified-body certificate metadata attached to the DPP, automated expiry alerts six and three months ahead, and a change-control workflow that re-triggers Module B when the substance, process or geometry envelope changes.

Buying checklist

Vet any DPP platform against this.

  • Does the platform issue a Unique Product Identifier (UPI) at SKU and batch granularity against the harmonised EU scheme?
  • Does it print or NFC-encode the data carrier on the toy, the packaging and the instructions as the TSR permits all three?
  • Does it ingest EN 71-1, EN 71-2, EN 71-3 and EN 71-9-12 test data directly from accredited lab providers (TÜV SÜD, LNE, SGS, Intertek, BSI, IMQ)?
  • Does it federate against battery passports under Battery Regulation 2023/1542 via a battery UPI cross-reference?
  • Does it federate against RoHS DoC and RED conformity records for electronic and connected toys?
  • Does it handle the digital warning-label regime in every required Member-State language (24+ official languages)?
  • Does it surface a notified-body certificate expiry alert at six and three months ahead?
  • Does it expose tiered access (public, authority-only, recycler-only) so trade secrets stay protected while regulators get full visibility?
  • Does it cryptographically anchor every DPP record so tampering is detectable on first read?
  • Does it run automated substance-engine checks against REACH Annex XVII, CLP CMR list, EN 71-3 migration limits and TSR Annex II?
  • Does it expose the DPP to customs authorities at the EU external border via the harmonised customs-DPP interface?
  • Does it integrate with SafetyGate (formerly RAPEX) for automated rapid-alert reporting and recall scoping?
  • Does it pre-flight marketplace listings (Amazon, Otto, FNAC, MediaMarkt, Allegro) so non-compliant SKUs never publish?
  • Does it support change-control workflows that re-trigger Module B certification when geometry, substance or process envelopes shift?
  • Does it offer batch-level recall scoping and retailer-notification workflow within 24-72 hours of a SafetyGate alert?
  • Does it host data inside the EU under GDPR-compliant infrastructure?
  • Does it run as an audit-grade system of record with full per-field changelog, role-based access and SOC 2 Type II evidence?
Case studies

How toy makers are getting ahead.

Industry

European plush-toy manufacturer

Challenge

A French or German plush-toy maker placing 1.2 million units per year across forty SKUs, sourcing textiles and stuffing from twelve suppliers in Portugal, Tunisia and Vietnam. The DPP priority is REACH SVHC compliance on textile dyes, EN 71-2 flammability test linkage, EN 71-3 element migration on accessible plush surfaces, and digital-warning-label support across fifteen Member-State languages for retail expansion into Central and Eastern Europe.

Solution

Modular DPP platform with REACH substance engine, EN 71-2 and EN 71-3 lab-data ingestion, multilingual digital-warning-label rendering, batch-level UPI keyed off the existing GS1 GTIN scheme and a customs-interface pre-flight that gates every shipment before it leaves the contract-factory dock.

Result

Full DPP coverage across the SKU portfolio twelve months ahead of the TSR applicability milestone; zero SafetyGate listings in the first commercial year under the new regime; customs detention rate dropped from a baseline 1.8% of shipments to zero.

Industry

European construction-block manufacturer

Challenge

A Polish or Danish construction-block maker producing interlocking plastic bricks across more than two thousand active SKUs, with shared component-tray accessories that introduce small-parts warnings on the 0-3 age band. The DPP priority is component-level UPI federation (so the same brick across hundreds of sets shares a single canonical DPP), phthalate and PVC-substitute substance declarations on every accessory, and a notified-body Module B workflow that handles colourway and pigment-system variants without re-certifying the entire family.

Solution

Component-level DPP federation with parent-child cross-referencing, automated substance-engine flag on phthalate and CMR Cat 1A/1B/2 thresholds, notified-body certificate metadata and expiry alerting, and a change-control workflow that scopes Module B re-examination automatically when pigment or geometry envelopes shift.

Result

DPP coverage extended from 12% of the active SKU base to 100% in eight months; notified-body re-certification cycle time reduced by 60%; substance-incident response time reduced from six weeks to seventy-two hours.

Industry

Battery-operated educational-toy brand

Challenge

A UK-headquartered, EU-distributing educational-toy brand producing battery-operated learning tablets and interactive plush for the 3-8 age band, with embedded LiPo cells, Bluetooth radio and a companion mobile app. The DPP priority is multi-regulation federation: TSR for the toy itself, Battery Regulation 2023/1542 for the embedded cell, RoHS for the electronic components, RED for the Bluetooth radio, and GDPR for the companion-app data flow that resolves the DPP for an end-user parent.

Solution

Cross-regulation DPP federation with battery-passport UPI linkage, RoHS DoC and RED conformity record attachment, EN 62115 battery-compartment securing-mechanism declaration, and a parent-facing DPP view exposing safety information, recall status and end-of-life routing on first scan.

Result

Cross-regulation DPP federation live across the SKU portfolio; SafetyGate readiness validated against three simulated recall scenarios; marketplace listing acceptance rate on Amazon EU and Otto reached 100% on first publication under the new pre-flight DPP-query regime.

Toys FAQ

Frequently asked,
about toys DPPs.

Recurring questions from plush, construction, ride-on, board-game and battery-operated toy teams preparing for the revised Toy Safety Regulation, EN 71 and the 2027 enforcement window.

Book a compliance briefing
When does the toys DPP become mandatory?+

The revised Toy Safety Regulation is expected to be adopted during 2025, with a thirty-month transition period. The first DPP-linked requirements bite from H1 2027 (unique identifier, data carrier, EU Declaration of Conformity attached to DPP) and full applicability follows in Q1 2028, at which point Directive 2009/48/EC is repealed and the TSR governs every toy placed on the EU market.

Does the DPP replace the CE marking and the EU Declaration of Conformity?+

No. CE marking remains the visible conformity mark on the toy itself, and the EU Declaration of Conformity remains a legally signed document that the manufacturer or EU authorised representative must hold and provide on request. The DPP is the digital layer that exposes the EU DoC, the technical file and the underlying compliance data in a queryable, machine-readable form accessible to customs, market-surveillance authorities, distributors, retailers and the end-user parent.

Are imported toys and online-marketplace listings in scope?+

Yes. EU importers, fulfilment-service providers, online-marketplace operators and distributors who place toys on the EU market under their own brand are economic operators under the TSR and inherit DPP obligations even when the original manufacturer is non-EU. From TSR enforcement, marketplaces will be required to query the DPP before publishing any toy listing, and customs authorities will detain at port of entry any toy whose DPP fails resolution.

Can trade secrets and contract-factory identity be protected inside the DPP?+

Yes. The TSR provides for tiered access: public, authority-only and recycler-only fields. Commercially sensitive data such as detailed BOM, supplier identity, pigment-system formulation and process parameters can be restricted to designated parties (market surveillance authorities, notified bodies, customs) while the public DPP view surfaces only the safety-relevant fields a parent or retailer needs to see.

Does the DPP replace the printed warning label on the packaging?+

The revised TSR introduces a digital warning-label regime alongside, not instead of, the existing printed warnings. Safety-critical warnings (small parts, magnets, ride-on, suffocation-bag) remain printed on the packaging in line with TSD Annex V. The digital warning label is reachable through the DPP data carrier and provides the full set of warnings, instructions for use and safety information in every required Member-State language.

How does the toys DPP federate with the battery passport for battery-operated toys?+

Any toy containing one or more cells is subject to both the TSR and the Battery Regulation 2023/1542. The toy DPP cross-references one or more battery passports through a battery UPI, exposing cell chemistry (LiPo, LiCoO2, LiFePO4, NiMH, alkaline), capacity, voltage, securing-mechanism evidence under EN 62115 cl. 14.6, and end-of-life routing. The federation pattern is loosely coupled and cryptographically linked so a battery replacement does not invalidate the toy-level DPP.

What data carrier should we use on the toy — QR, NFC or both?+

The TSR permits the data carrier on the toy itself, on the packaging or on the instructions, and accepts QR code, NFC tag or equivalent machine-readable carrier. Printed QR is the universal default and survives most use scenarios. NFC tags survive washing and labels but require an NFC-enabled reader. Many manufacturers adopt a hybrid model with a printed QR on the packaging for retail-shelf scanning and a sewn-in NFC tag on the toy itself for the post-purchase parent-facing experience.

What happens to toys placed on the market before the TSR applicability date?+

Toys lawfully placed on the EU market before the TSR applicability milestone may continue to circulate under the previous TSD regime until exhaustion of stock. Importers and distributors moving new SKUs into warehousing after the deadline must onboard the DPP infrastructure; mixing pre-TSR and post-TSR stock under the same SKU without batch-level traceability is one of the highest enforcement risks the industry is currently underestimating.

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