The CRA and the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) both provide for rules for the making available on the market of products, but they have a different scope in terms of the products and aspects that they apply to and the requirements that they set. In terms of products in scope of the Regulations, while the CRA only applies to products with digital elements, the GPSR applies to all consumer products to the extent that there are no specific provisions with the same objective under Union law that regulate the safety of the products concerned. In terms of the requirements set by the Regulations, the CRA provides for cybersecurity requirements, while the GPSR provides safety requirements for products.
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