Market access · Insights
Conformity is not the goal.
It is the precondition.
Excerpts from "Marktzulassung — how to bring your product to market in Switzerland and the EU" by Dr. Raphael Nagel (Tactical Management Press, 2026).
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Compliance is risk management.
Not bureaucracy — survival strategy.
A product that fails to meet applicable requirements carries a risk that materialises as recall, fine or criminal liability.
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Switzerland and the EU: what the MRA covers — and where it stops.
The 1999 agreement, re-read.
The MRA does not cover all categories. Three of the most commercially important categories in bilateral trade are absent: cosmetics, food, REACH chemicals.
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GPSR 2024 — what actually changed.
The General Product Safety Regulation, reframed.
Online marketplaces are now in scope. Safety Gate is wired into the big platforms. Non-compliance is detected faster than before.
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The digital product passport.
The next mandatory project.
The DPP is not a label. Not a document. It is a machine-readable data spine that follows a product across its life.
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Notified Body or self-declaration?
The decision that drives timeline and budget.
Not all CE conformity assessments are equal. Making this decision at the start — not at the end — avoids the most expensive market-access mistakes.
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The technical file.
Complete, current, accessible.
Three non-negotiable requirements. Missing one is the same problem as having none.
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