CHAPTER II · OBLIGATIONS OF ECONOMIC OPERATORS AND PROVISIONS IN RELATION TO FREE AND OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
Article 21 — Cases in which obligations of manufacturers apply to importers and distributors
OFFICIAL TEXTRegulation (EU) 2024/2847·Official language version: English (EN)··Retrieved 2 November 2026·View on EUR-Lex
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Official text of Article 21
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An importer or distributor shall be considered to be a manufacturer for the purposes of this Regulation and shall be subject to Articles 13 and 14, where that importer or distributor places a product with digital elements on the market under its name or trademark or carries out a substantial modification of a product with digital elements already placed on the market.
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