Member

The Bill provides the opportunity to develop requirements following stakeholder engagement, options assessments and considerations of practical implications, including how requirements could be tailored to specific business models in a proportionate way. The requirements will build on best practice to create a proportionate regulatory framework where online marketplaces take steps to: prevent unsafe products from being made available to consumers; ensure that sellers operating on their platform comply with product safety obligations; co-operate closely with regulators, including responding quickly to requests to remove non-compliant products, as mentioned earlier; and provide relevant information to consumers. New requirements will sit alongside the existing priority national online marketplaces programme, established by the Office for Product Safety and Standards to reduce the risk of non-compliant products sold online. This programme includes regulatory action, intelligence-led test purchasing of products, enforcement of online marketplaces and other relevant actors, consumer and business advice campaigns, and co-ordinated regulatory interventions at our ports and borders.