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title: "Declare your EU trader status in each · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/mobile-apps/store-review-and-listing/eu-trader-status
id: MOB-40
level: Required
applies: eu-users
risk: law
updated: 2026-10-22
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tokens: 813
licence: "CC BY 4.0"
licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
---

# Declare your EU trader status in each store

For AI agents: the [site map](https://agentwranglers.se/llms.txt) lists everything here, and this page sits under [Store review and listing](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/mobile-apps/store-review-and-listing.md).

By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers.md). Updated 2026-10-27.

- ID: MOB-40
- Level: Required
- Chapter: [Store review and listing](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/mobile-apps/store-review-and-listing.md)
- Rule: Before an app goes live in the EU, decide whether you act as a trader and declare it in each store. A trader gives an address, phone number and email that the store verifies and shows.
- Check: The store console shows a verified trader status for the account. The product page in one EU storefront shows the address, phone number and email, and the email reaches a shared mailbox.
- Risk: A law broken
- Applies when: The project has users in the EU.
- How: The Digital Services Act makes app stores check and show the contact details of every trader. [Check traders before they sell on your marketplace](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/online-platforms/trader-traceability.md) describes that duty from the store's side. You act as a trader when the app is part of your business, for example when it earns money from sales, subscriptions or ads. Apple has removed apps without verified trader status from its EU storefronts since 17 February 2025, until the status is verified. An organisation shows the address tied to its D-U-N-S Number. An individual shows a home address or a post box. Apple confirms the email and phone with a code and the address with a business record. Use a shared mailbox and a business phone, since both appear on the public product page. Update both stores the day the address or phone changes.

## Sources

- [Apple, Manage European Union Digital Services Act trader requirements](https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-compliance-information/manage-european-union-digital-services-act-trader-requirements/)
- [Apple, DSA trader status required for apps in the EU](https://developer.apple.com/news/upcoming-requirements/?id=02172025a)

## Related rules

- CMP-66 [Check traders before they sell on your marketplace](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/online-platforms/trader-traceability.md) in Compliance and governance

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