A commercial provider offering at least two specified handling services without owning the products.
Under EU market-surveillance law, this role covers providers offering at least two of warehousing, packaging, addressing and dispatching without product ownership, subject to listed postal, parcel and freight exclusions. Battery-specific handling duties can also apply. The role alone does not transfer every manufacturer's compliance obligation to the provider.
A fulfilment service provider is an actor meeting the source-specific combination-of-services test and exclusions, not every logistics provider.
Exclusions matter.
Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 Article 3(11) sets a two-service threshold and excludes specified postal, parcel and freight services.
EU Market Surveillance Regulation
‘fulfilment service provider’ means any natural or legal person offering, in the course of commercial activity, at least two of the following services: warehousing, packaging, addressing and dispatching, without having ownership of the products involved, excluding postal services as defined in point 1 of Article 2 of Directive 97/67/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (1), parcel delivery services as defined in point 2 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2018/644 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2), and any other postal services or freight transport services;
Formal definition in the cited source and edition; scope and application follow that instrument. Consolidated EUR-Lex text is a documentation tool; the Official Journal text is authentic.
Reference: Article 3(11)
Officially defined in the cited source. The verbatim source passage is shown separately from Minespider’s explanatory text; applicability follows that source.
Record the actual combination of services provided and check the postal, parcel and freight exclusions.
Record which two covered services are provided and test the listed exclusions before treating a logistics counterparty as in scope.
Source anchor; see source context and definition status.
Open referenceSource anchor; see source context and definition status.
Open referenceFootnote (1) attached to the postal-services citation in the quotation.
Open referenceFootnote (2) attached to the parcel-delivery citation in the quotation.
Open reference