Consumer Safety
The goods and services offered to consumers must be safe. The companies and other parties offering these goods and services must, among other things, assess the associated risks. Also, sufficient information must be provided to the consumer regarding the goods and services so that they can assess the dangers associated with them.
The Act on the Safety of Consumer Products (184/2025) and the Act on the Safety of Consumer Services (185/2025), both of which entered into force on 5 May 2025, replaced the previous Consumer Safety Act.
The legislation primarily aims to supplement the EU’s General Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988 and to modernise the general regulation on safety of consumer services. The purpose of the Acts is to ensure that consumer goods or services do not pose a risk to health or property.
Provisions on products falling within the scope of application of the General Product Safety Regulation are laid down in the Consumer Products Safety Act to the extent necessary under the Regulation. The Act mainly lays down provisions on language requirements concerning product safety, competent market surveillance authorities and some of their powers, and sanctions applicable to violations of the General Product Safety Regulation. Most of the provisions on powers are laid down in the Act on the Market Surveillance of Certain Products.
The Act on the Safety of Consumer Services lays down provisions on the requirements on safe consumer services and their assessment, the obligations of service providers, the supervisory authority and its means of supervision, the supervisory authority’s binding decisions and sanctions for violating the Act.
Eriika Melkas, Senior Ministerial Adviser
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, Employment and Well-Functioning Markets Department, Corporate Law and EU Single Market, Yrityslainsäädäntö YLA Telephone:0295047134 Email Address: