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On September 28, 2022, the European Commission published two proposals—the Revised Product Liability Directive and the AI Liability Directive—aimed at adapting liability rules to the green and digital transition...

It's been a year since the European Commission published its Fifth Report on the application of the European Product Liability Directive and set up expert panels to develop its thinking on next policy steps.

A few days after publication of the European Commission's recommendation on collective redress mechanisms, the Belgian cabinet adopted the Collective Actions Bill on 5 July 2013.

On 25 July 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down its judgment concerning energy labels in a case involving Dyson and BSH (ECJ, 25 July 2018, Case C-632/16, Dyson Ltd and Dyson BV v. BSH Home Appliances NV).

The request was made in the context of a dispute between Ms Froukje Faber and a garage called Autobedrijf Hazet Ochten BV.

The primary aim of the study was to investigate to what extent manufacturers program the obsolescence of their electrical and electronic devices.

The new Product Liability Directive ("PLD") replaced the old Product Liability Directive (Directive 85/375/EEC) and aims to bring the European Union's product liability regime...

The European Parliament approved the co-legislators' political agreement over new toy safety rules and, on 25 November 2025, adopted the Toy Safety Regulation ('TSR').

On 21 May 2011, the Official Journal published Commission Regulation 494/2011 which extends the current ban on the presence of cadmium in products to cover articles made of plastic materials, articles of jewellery, and brazing. sticks

This week, the EU Member States approved the conclusions of the Council of the EU to strengthen the overall resilience and (cyber)security of ICT supply chains.

The EU's General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) (Regulation (EU) 2023/988) changes the way that product recalls will work in the European Union.

The AI Act was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 12 July 2024, a couple of months later than expected, and will become law on 1 August 2024.

Smart homes, smart cars, smart health, smart wearables, smart banking, etc. Everything around us is gaining a "smart" element. Definitions on the Internet-of-Things (IoT) are plentiful...

After years of discussions on the subject and amid much expectation, the reform of the EU general product safety legislation has been finally adopted and entered into force on 12 June 2023.

On 2 to 4 August 2011, the EU’s Official Journal published a number of regulations that regulations concern the classification of goods in the EU’s Combined Nomenclature (CN), in order to ensure a uniform application of customs treatment in respect of these goods throughout the Union.

The European Commission published a draft proposal for a revised Product Liability Directive (the "PLD Proposal") on 28 September 2022, which aims to bring the European Union's...

In our first alert in this weekly series on the EU Pharma Package, we provided some important background and general information about the status of the Pharma Package and how the trilogues work. In the second alert, we discussed the proposed changes to regulatory data protection