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Regulation (EU) 2025/1960 explained
This is the implementing regulation that defines what the GARAN label and the harmonised notice look like and what they say. It is short — three articles and two annexes — and the annexes do most of the work.
At a glance
- Full title
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1960 of 25 September 2025 on the design and content of the harmonised notice on the legal guarantee of conformity and of the harmonised label for the commercial guarantee of durability
- Adopted
- 25 September 2025
- Published
- Official Journal, L series, 2 October 2025
- Applies from
- 27 September 2026
- Legal basis
- Article 22a(2) and (4) of Directive 2011/83/EU on consumer rights
- Author
- European Commission, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers
How the pieces fit together
Four instruments matter here, and the regulation sits at the end of the chain:
Directive 2011/83/EU — Consumer Rights Directive
The base act. Article 22a is where the harmonised notice and the harmonised label are established.
Directive (EU) 2024/825 — Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition
Amended the Consumer Rights Directive to add Article 22a, with the aim of making consumers more aware of their rights and stimulating demand for more durable goods. Member States must apply their transposing measures from 27 September 2026.
Directive (EU) 2019/771 — Sale of Goods Directive
Article 17 defines the commercial guarantee of durability itself: a producer's commitment that a good will keep its required functions and performance under normal use for a given period.
Regulation (EU) 2025/1960 — this act
Turns those obligations into concrete artwork: the exact design and content of both the notice and the label.
The three articles
Article 1 — Harmonised notice on the legal guarantee of conformity
The notice referred to in Article 22a(1) of Directive 2011/83/EU must follow the design and content set out in Annex I.
Article 2 — Harmonised label for the commercial guarantee of durability
The GARAN label must follow the design and content set out in Annex II.
Article 3 — Entry into force and application
The regulation entered into force on the twentieth day following its publication in the Official Journal on 2 October 2025, and applies from 27 September 2026. It is binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
The two annexes
Annex I covers the harmonised notice. None of its elements may be edited. Its minimum size is A4, it may be printed larger, and online it must be in colour.
Annex II covers the GARAN label: which elements are fixed and which three may be edited, the reference colours, the 95 × 100 mm minimum size, the Inter typeface, the rules on colour versus black and white, and the nested display. Our requirements guide works through it in detail.
Why the QR code exists
Because there is very little room on the label, the regulation uses a QR code to carry the rest of the explanation. It points to the Your Europe portal, where consumers can read that the label represents a producer's guarantee, offered at no extra cost, covering the whole good, for more than two years.