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Becomes a fulfillment service provider the responsible person at the moment when there is no manufacturer, importer or representative in the EU that can be identified, or when none of them responds or is reachable. As long as those earlier links do exist and can be found, the fulfillment service provider remains simply a fulfillment service provider: a party that provides storage, packaging, addressing or shipping without being the owner of the product, with the associated, more limited set of obligations.

Is an dóigh ar an ról atá ag an bhfreagracht don tábhacht a bhaint as an eanga a dhéanann an réamhfhreagracht. In the first place the EU manufacturer is responsible, then the importer, then the authorized representative, and only if none of those three can be identified does that responsibility fall to the fulfillment service provider. This makes the position in practice vulnerable: anyone who sends packages for a seller outside the EU who does not respond to requests, or from whom contact details no longer work, cannot rely on "I am only logistics" — there must be a responsible person, and in the absence of better, that will be the last link that is still identifiable. This is separate from the own-brand rule: anyone who sells products under their own name or logo is considered a manufacturer anyway, even if that party also carries out fulfillment work for others. A distributor — who only resells a product without this switching function — does not appear in this cascade and is therefore never automatically made the responsible person.

Cá bhfuil sé seo ag teacht as: alt 16 agus alt 3

Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2023/988 describes the cascade of economic operators acting as the responsible person, with the fulfillment service provider last in line when the manufacturer, importer and representative are absent or unreachable. Article 3 of the same regulation defines what is meant by a fulfillment service provider: a party that provides services such as storage, packaging, addressing or shipping without becoming the owner of the products.