responsible person.

Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 says a product may be placed on the market only if an economic operator established in the Union is responsible for the tasks in its paragraph 3. Paragraph 5 then limits which products: toys, machinery, personal protective equipment, electrical equipment and fourteen further instruments. Plain textile apparel appears on none of them, so Article 4 does not reach an ordinary printed tee. Where it does apply, paragraph 2 ranks who qualifies — a manufacturer in the Union, an importer where the manufacturer is outside it, a mandated authorised representative, and only "where no other economic operator ... is established in the Union" a fulfilment service provider. An EU print partner is therefore never the responsible person by default; it is the last of four names, reached only when the first three are absent. The duty that does reach a plain garment is the separate one under GPSR, and a shop reading its print partner's EU address as compliance with both has checked neither.