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Product Defects EU Directive

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EU Parliament's Committees vote on the proposal for a revision of EU product liability law

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A joint Committee of the European Parliament consisting of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (“IMCO”) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (“JURI”) approved their position on the European Commission's...more

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Repairing the supply chain – the proposed EU Directive on a right to repair

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The EU Commission is currently proposing a wide range of measures to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal to become climate neutral by 2050. At the same time it has a clear tendency to strengthen consumer rights. In...more

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Sustainable Products Regulations: Repairing the supply chain – the proposed EU Directive on a right to repair

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The EU Commission is currently proposing a wide range of measures to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal to become climate neutral by 2050 and to strengthen consumer rights simultaneously. In this context it has now...more

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Rebuttable presumptions of fact under the EU Commission’s recent product liability directive proposal

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Injured parties have claimed for a long time that one of the biggest obstacles they face to obtain compensation for damages suffered in product liability cases, is to meet the burden of proof regarding the defectiveness of...more

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European Commission Proposes Reform on Liability Rules for Artificial Intelligence

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The directives aim to assist claimants in proving the causation of damages and product defectiveness in complex AI systems, creating legal certainty for providers. On 28 September 2022, the European Commission issued two...more

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Proposals Published for the Revision of the European Product Liability Directive

On Wednesday 28 September, the European Commission released details of its long-awaited proposal for the revision of the 1985 Product Liability Directive (PLD) that introduced a strict liability regime for defective products...more

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How the Internet of Things could redefine product safety and liability in the EU

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How big is the Internet of Things (IoT)? It’s likely that there will be tens of billions of connected devices in use by 2020. As this massive network of “things” keeps expanding, so do the number of questions about...more

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