Does the new product liability law reach you?
Twelve answers on Directive (EU) 2024/2853, read by the same determination our portal runs. It reaches products placed on the market after 8 December 2026, through your own state's law.
Does it reach you, and for how long?
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Who is liable, and for how long
- 8(1)Who is liable
- 8(2)A substantial modification makes you the manufacturer
- 8(3)Distributors, where no EU operator can be identified
- 8(4)Online platforms in the distributor's place
- 12(1)Joint and several liability
- 15Liability cannot be excluded or limited
- 16(1)Three years to bring a claim
- 17(1)Ten years from placing on the market
- 17(2)Twenty-five years for a latent personal injury
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