How many documents can I generate for free?
Ten, across all six generators, with no account, no card and no email. That is enough for a product launch or a first compliance pass. After ten, a paid plan raises the allowance: 100 on Starter, 1,000 on Pro, unlimited on Business — and the same number covers documents we host for you at permanent URLs. Editing a document you have already made never counts again. Everything you generate in the free tier is a self-contained file that is yours to keep and host anywhere, whether or not you ever pay.
Is the GPSR already in force?
Yes. The General Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988 has applied since 13 December 2024. Article 19 requires distance-selling listings to display, before purchase, the manufacturer's identity and postal and electronic address, an EU Responsible Person with contact details where the manufacturer is outside the EU, product identifying information with an image, and safety warnings in the language of the country of sale. Marketplaces can delist listings that miss this information, and customs can hold shipments that lack an EU Responsible Person.
Does the withdrawal button apply to my shop?
If you sell to consumers in the EU through a website or app and a statutory right of withdrawal applies, yes — and it has applied since 19 June 2026. Directive (EU) 2023/2673 inserted Article 11a into the Consumer Rights Directive. The directive is titled for distance financial services, which is why it is widely mis-scoped, but Article 11a is horizontal and reaches most B2C e-commerce: physical goods, digital products, subscriptions, bookings and apps. You need a clearly labelled withdrawal function that is continuously available throughout the withdrawal period, a separate confirmation step, and an acknowledgement on a durable medium carrying the content of the statement and the date and time of submission. Contracts with no statutory right of withdrawal — bespoke goods, perishables, sealed hygiene items — are unaffected. National transposition still varies; the Commission opened infringement procedures against 21 Member States in January 2026.
Do I need to do anything about the AI Act?
If you put AI in front of people in the EU, probably yes. From 2 August 2026, Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 requires four things: a system that interacts directly with people must make clear it is a machine; synthetic audio, image, video and text must be marked in a machine-readable format and detectable as AI-generated; deployers of emotion recognition or biometric categorisation must inform the people exposed; and deepfakes, along with AI-written text published to inform the public on matters of public interest, must be disclosed. Generative systems already on the EU market before 2 August have until 2 December 2026 for the machine-readable marking specifically — everything else applies from 2 August with no transition. Penalties reach €15 million or 3% of worldwide annual turnover. Our tool writes the human-readable notices; the machine-readable marking is a watermarking problem no text generator can solve, and we say so on the page.
When do I need a PPWR Declaration of Conformity for packaging?
From 12 August 2026, when Regulation (EU) 2025/40 starts to apply. The producer of the packaging draws it up under its sole responsibility, structured per Annex VIII, and keeps it available with the technical documentation. Importers and distributors have to verify that it exists before making packaging available on the EU market, which is why suppliers are already being asked for it ahead of the date. The declaration attests to an assessment you have already made — the substantive requirements on substances of concern, recyclability, recycled content and minimisation sit in the regulation itself.
Do I need an EU Declaration of Conformity?
If your product carries the CE marking, yes. The manufacturer draws it up under its sole responsibility before the mark is affixed and keeps it on file, typically for ten years after the product is placed on the market. One declaration can cover several acts at once — a lamp under the Low Voltage, EMC and RoHS directives gets a single declaration listing all of them. Most sectors follow the model in Annex III of Decision 768/2008/EC, but some set their own: medical devices under Regulation (EU) 2017/745 and in-vitro diagnostics under Regulation (EU) 2017/746 are the common exceptions.
Do I need a Digital Product Passport?
The battery passport. Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 makes a Digital Product Passport mandatory from 18 February 2027 for EV batteries, LMT batteries and industrial batteries above 2 kWh — portable batteries are excluded. It is currently the only legally binding DPP in EU law. The ESPR (Regulation (EU) 2024/1781) is a framework intended to extend passports to other sectors, but no delegated act creating an obligation for any other product group has been adopted yet.
Does my product data leave my device?
Not while you are generating. All generation happens client-side in your browser. Product details you type are kept in your browser's local storage on your own device so that other RulesOf.EU tools can offer to prefill them, and they are never transmitted while you work. There is no analytics on your form contents and no account tying your products to an identity. The single exception is deliberate and opt-in: if you take a paid plan and choose to host a document, that document is sent to us so we can serve it at a permanent URL. Nothing else is.
If I use these tools, is my product fully compliant?
No, and we want to be direct about that. Each tool generates one specific document or information block that a regulation requires. Compliance usually involves more: risk assessments, conformity assessment procedures, technical files retained for roughly ten years, appointing an EU Responsible Person, registrations, and correct marking. The tools tell you on each page exactly what they do and do not cover. RulesOf.EU is an independent informational resource, not legal advice.
What do the paid plans add?
A bigger allowance, plus hosting and workflow. Each plan has one number covering both the documents you generate and the ones we host at permanent URLs. Starter (€29/mo) gives you 100, with editing and version history. Pro (€69/mo) raises that to 1,000 and adds CSV batch import, custom branding, your own subdomain and scan analytics for QR codes. Business (€129/mo) covers unlimited documents, your own domain, bulk edit across every document at once, and your full archive emailed to you every month. Everything hosted is exportable in full at any time.