Sad times indeed, GPSR EUR and NI

Today we’re bringing pretty unfortunate news for our EU & NI customers. 

You may have seen rumblings online within the small business community about new guidelines coming into force next month.

General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) are taking effect on 13th December. This has been in the pipeline for years  but no-one thought to mention it to small businesses, who are going to be massively impacted by the new rules and are only now finding out about it.

The short story is: from 13th December we will no longer be able to sell to countries within the European Union, and Northern Ireland.

The long story is: these new GPSR regulations are replacing older safety regs and are being put in place to ensure that all sales placed in the EU meet modern safety standards.

This is all fair enough (of course we all want our products to be safe), and there are a number of things we would need to put in place on our products – such as updated safety information and compliance on labels which we can of course implement if that was the only condition.

The main issue however, is that all businesses selling products must have an Authorised Representative based in the EU/NI who acts as a compliance contact and ensures the products meet EU requirements.

We don’t have the resources to fulfil this requirement, and the fines that we will be liable to if we break this law are enormous. Which means that we (alongside every other UK small business that we know of) are no longer able to sell to our wonderful EU/NI customers.

What Does this mean for Vicuna Dubbing

We are devastated. We have come to know our European customers well, and we are so sad we will no longer be able to provide you with our products. 

We will be changing our delivery settings on the website to mean that EU/NI won’t be able to place an order. If for any reason one comes through we will have to refund and cancel the order.

We will no longer be taking orders from today, the 6th December.

We can only apologise for the position we now find ourselves in and hope that in the future we will again be able to provide you with our products to use on your amazing patterns.

We are hoping that there will be a change of terms and conditions with these new regulations and we will of course let you know of any updates as soon as we have them.

 We apologise again and hope to speak to you all again soon,

Faye