AGIBOT distributor for Bulgaria and Romania: who imports
"Can I actually buy from you" has a legal answer that depends on which country is asking, not a single yes across the EU.
- Robotoplus is AGIBOT's appointed distributor for Bulgaria and Romania specifically.
- That appointment is what lets Robotoplus buy from the manufacturer, bring the machines into the European Union, and be the party placing them on the market in those two countries. The importer obligations sit with Robotoplus there, not with the buyer.
- Greece and Cyprus work differently under the same relationship.
- Robotoplus sells into both as a supplier already inside the single market, having placed the machines on the Union market itself, so a buyer there purchases intra-EU and the importer obligations never pass to them. Same company, same product, a different legal position depending on which of the four countries the sale happens in.
- Importing directly from outside the EU is a different, heavier commitment than either of those, regardless of which country the buyer is in.
- Whoever places a machine on the EU market directly from outside it becomes the importer under Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and Article 36 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, and the conformity file, the technical documentation, the market-surveillance correspondence and the liability that comes with them all become theirs.
- There is no harmonised European standard yet for a free-walking general-purpose humanoid, which makes the timing of that decision matter.
- The Machinery Regulation becomes mandatory on 20 January 2027, and taking on importer status as a side effect of a purchase order, rather than a deliberate choice, is not a good trade to make under a deadline that is already on the calendar.
Being the appointed distributor is also why Robotoplus can answer for the product directly instead of forwarding a question: conformity, spare parts, service and modifications go through a named channel to the manufacturer. That is a matter of the legal structure behind a sale, not a promise made on a page.
