Navigating The Evolving Product Liability Landscape: Part 2 - Consequences For Irish Businesses

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The Product Liability Directive EU 2024/2853 (New Directive) is due to be transposed into national law by 9 December 2026.

This article is the second instalment of a three-part series on Irish product liability law. In our first briefing, we analysed the key features of the New Directive, which aim to strengthen legal protections and certainty for claimants, while modernising the product liability framework to ensure it operates effectively in an increasingly digitalised environment.

In this briefing, we will consider some of the consequences of these changes for Irish businesses. Our final article in this series will focus on the New Directive’s interaction with other legislative instruments such as the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) and the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Act 2023.