Product Liability Directive, Directive (EU) 2024/2853
Liability for defective products, including software and digital services.
What we read it for
The act behind our liability pages: who answers for a defective product when software or a digital service is part of it.
Identity
| Type | Directive |
| Identifier | EU 2024/2853 |
| CELEX | 32024L2853 |
| Adopted | 2024-10-23 |
| In force | 2024-12-08 |
| Transposition deadline | 2026-12-09 |
22 articles in the base act
Structure
The chapter structure of this act is not read into the register yet. The official text carries it.
Articles
24 articles are read into the register, one address each.
- 1 · Subject matter and objective
- 2 · Scope
- 3 · Level of harmonisation
- 4 · Definitions
- 5 · Right to compensation
- 6 · Damage
- 7 · Defectiveness
- 8 · Economic operators liable for defective products
- 9 · Disclosure of evidence
- 10 · Burden of proof
- 11 · Exemption from liability
- 12 · Liability of multiple economic operators
- 13 · Reduction of liability
- 14 · Right of recourse
- 15 · Exclusion or limitation of liability
- 16 · Limitation period
- 17 · Expiry period
- 18 · Derogation from development risk defence
- 19 · Transparency
- 20 · Evaluation
- 21 · Repeal and transitional provision
- 22 · Transposition
- 23 · Entry into force
- 24 · Addressees
Language versions
EUR-Lex publishes the act in every official language. These are the direct addresses for the languages this site is written in.
Norwegian is not an official EU language. Norwegian readers use the national register.
National law
One line per country. A line exists only when a primary source has been read; otherwise the national register is linked instead.
| National law | Identifier | Official text |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| Norway: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| Denmark: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| Finland: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| Germany: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| United Kingdom: Outside this jurisdiction | — | National register |
National implementing measures on EUR-Lex
Supervision
Official text
Who does this apply to
The register names five roles. Open a role to see the duties this act places on it, each row with its article and its source.
Does this apply to us?
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