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As products have become more complex in the digital age, the European Commission published a proposal for a new directive on liability of defective products in September 2022. This would revise the existing Product Liability Directive, adopted nearly 40 years ago in 1985. The proposal aims to bring the European Union's product liability regime up to speed with the digital age, circular economy business models and global value chains by ensuring that consumers receive compensation for defective products ...

The European Commission published a proposal for a directive on adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence (the 'AI liability directive') in September 2022. The Commission proposes to complement and modernise the EU liability framework to introduce new rules specific to damages caused by AI systems. The new rules intend to ensure that persons harmed by AI systems enjoy the same level of protection as persons harmed by other technologies in the EU. The AI liability directive ...

On 9 December 2015, the Commission tabled a proposal for a directive on contracts for supply of digital content to consumers. The proposal would cover, with a single set of rules, contracts for the sale of digital content (e.g. when consumers buy music, films, e-books or applications), for rental of digital content (e.g. when consumers watch a movie online, but do not download a copy), as well as contracts for digital services, such as cloud computing and social media. The proposal envisages a maximum ...

Despite the presumption of innocence being guaranteed by international, EU and national laws, there are reports of repeated violations of this principle by EU Member States. The Commission seeks to address this problem with a proposal scheduled to be voted in plenary in January 2016.

The European Commission proposed in 2013 to amend existing legislation in order to better combat breaches of EU customs legislation. The EP and Council negotiators amended the proposal to clarify and streamline its provisions, and this new text has now to be adopted by Parliament.

The proposed directive on the European Investigation Order is aimed at setting up a comprehensive system for obtaining evidence in criminal cases with a cross-border dimension. Whereas this mutual recognition instrument is supposed to facilitate much greater cooperation across the EU, it also raises concerns over the protection of fundamental rights.

This note seeks to provide an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's Impact Assessment (IA) accompanying the proposal for a Directive on Actions for Antitrust Damages, submitted on 11 June 2013. It analyses whether the principal criteria laid down in the Commission’s own Impact Assessment Guidelines, as well as additional factors identified by the Parliament in its Impact Assessment Handbook, appear to be met by the IA. It does not attempt to deal with the ...

This study provides a rapid analysis of the main issues raised in the European Commission's Green Paper on Penal Protection of the EU's Financial Interests and on the Creation of a European Public Prosecutor. It examines the Commission's ideas on the Structure and Organisation of the Prosecutor's Office and the Legal Questions associated with these. Specific issues raised are the Question of the Transfer and Admissibility of evidence, the Protection of the Rights of the accused and the Relationship ...