Slovakia has general rules on product labelling in the Consumer Protection Act, and other specific regulations setting out rules for particular product labels.
Slovakian laws on product labelling apply to sellers.
The rules require sellers to ensure that all products:
- are labelled with information about manufacturer (or the importer, in the case of products imported from outside the EU)
- are visibly marked with information about the manufacturer (or about the importer and supplier)
- have labelling which is permanent and an integral part of each product (although it needn’t be integrally attached) so that the information is already part of the product when the customer selects it, and thus has a chance to see who the manufacturer is before deciding whether or not to buy it
Manufacturers is the producer of the goods, if it has its corporate base in Slovakia or another EU member state or, if it doesn’t, to the authorised representative in Slovakia or the EU and, failing that, the person who imports the product from outside the EU. Supplier is any business that delivers the product to the seller, either directly or indirectly.
There is no general requirement to label products with their country of origin (or region) but there are specific country-of-origin labelling requirements for consumer packaging of:
- packed foodstuff, if consumers could be misled without the information
- tobacco products (if the country of origin is not listed jointly with the producer)
- fresh fishery produce
- livestock
- condiments (optional)
