Act No. 134 on product safety and official market surveillance.

This Act establishes a general framework for product safety and official market surveillance. It applies to products traded in Iceland in a commercial context, including products supplied for payment or free of charge, and to services connected with product transactions. Its core rule is that producers may only place safe products on the market, meaning products that, under normal or foreseeable use, do not create unacceptable risks to people, property, health, or the environment. The Act also defines key actors such as producers, distributors, inspection bodies, market surveillance authorities, and safe products, while excluding areas already governed by specific safety regimes, such as food, medicines, poisons, and hazardous substances, except where those rules are insufficient or go less far than Chapters IV and V of this Act.
The Act sets out how Icelandic authorities supervise product safety through market surveillance, inspections, information-gathering, complaints, and cooperation between the accreditation authority and other competent bodies. Authorities may require documentation from producers and distributors, inspect goods, take samples, prohibit sale or delivery, order recalls, require dangerous products to be corrected, replaced, refunded, destroyed, or withdrawn, and impose daily fines if orders are ignored. It also requires administrative decisions to follow proper procedure, allows urgent temporary measures in cases of imminent danger, imposes confidentiality duties on officials and inspection bodies, and provides for penalties such as fines or detention for violations.