Compliance-by-design platform interfaces
compliance-by-design-interfacesDomain: marketplace-platformType: in-houseDescription
Compliance-by-design interfaces are the marketplace-platform answer to the structural problem that traders selling on a platform are responsible for product-compliance disclosures, but the platform is the surface those disclosures actually live on. The DSA Article 31, the EU General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR), and the EU Market Surveillance Regulation 2019/1020 all require platforms hosting third-party traders to design listing flows that prompt traders for the legally-required information at listing time: CE markings, ingredient lists, country of origin, hazard warnings, energy-label data, GPSR economic-operator details where applicable. Implementation has two pieces: the listing-form surface that asks the right questions (with required fields making the listing un-publishable when the trader skips the data the regulation demands), and the verification layer that does a sanity check on what traders actually entered (typically a mix of format validation, cross-reference against authoritative registries for things like CE marks, and risk-based human review). The platform does not have to verify that the trader's claims are true (that responsibility stays with the trader); the platform has to make it impossible to publish without making the claims at all. That distinction is why the compliance burden lands on the listing-form design rather than on a substantive review pipeline.
Applicability
Applies when: business model role is intermediary or mixed.
Required by (1 regulation)
- DSA
Article 31(2) — compliance-by-design interfaces.
Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Digital Services Act)
Fulfilled by (1)
- In-house build · high effort
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Evidence formats
- listing-form schema
- field-level help copy
- rejection-rate dashboards