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Corporate sustainability due diligence: How to integrate human rights and environmental concerns in value chains
Companies can play a key role in building a sustainable economy and society. At the same time, their global value chains can pose risks to human rights and the environment. A growing number of EU companies have taken initiatives to deploy due diligence processes, often using existing voluntary international standards on responsible business conduct. Some Member States have meanwhile started developing their own legal frameworks on corporate due diligence. In a legislative-initiative resolution adopted ...
Aligning the Product Liability Directive with the circular economy and emerging technologies: Revision of Directive 85/374/EEC
Adopted in 1985, the Product Liability Directive (PLD) introduced a strict, harmonised product liability framework and legal certainty for producers and consumers facing damage caused by defective products. The PLD has co-existed for almost 40 years with national liability rules, offering a fault-based product liability system. The PLD also complements other legal instruments within the EU liability framework that address, for example, contractual liability and product safety. Significant societal ...
Este estudio aborda el destino de la responsabilidad medioambiental y los delitos contra el medio ambiente en el marco de las fusiones y adquisiciones. Se analiza si la responsabilidad medioambiental se traslada a una empresa sucesora o a una sociedad matriz. También se examina el papel de las empresas en la Directiva sobre los delitos contra el medio ambiente, prestando especial atención a la sucesión de empresas. Se hace especial hincapié en el concepto de ecocidio. El estudio concluye que, en ...
Un marco de la UE para la inteligencia artificial
Los legisladores de la Unión Europea (UE) están reflexionando acerca de la mejor manera de legislar sobre el uso de la tecnología de inteligencia artificial (IA), intentando maximizar las oportunidades de que los ciudadanos de la UE se beneficien de esa tecnología y estableciendo, al mismo tiempo, normas contra sus riesgos. Está previsto que el Parlamento vote en su sesión plenaria de octubre II tres informes de propia iniciativa de la Comisión de Asuntos Jurídicos (JURI) en los ámbitos de la ética ...
Civil liability regime for artificial intelligence
The findings of this European added value assessment (EAVA) suggest that the revision of the EU civil liability regime for artificial intelligence systems (AI) would likely generate substantial economic and social added value. The current preliminary analysis suggests that by 2030, EU action on liability could generate €54.8 billion in added value for the EU economy by stepping up the level of research and development in AI and in the range of €498.3 billion if other broader impacts, including reductions ...
Artificial Intelligence and Civil Liability
This study – commissioned by the Policy Department C at the request of the Committee on Legal Affairs – analyses the notion of AI-technologies and the applicable legal framework for civil liability. It demonstrates how technology regulation should be technology-specific, and presents a Risk Management Approach, where the party who is best capable of controlling and managing a technology-related risk is held strictly liable, as a single entry point for litigation. It then applies such approach to ...
Environmental liability of companies
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs, aims at gaining deeper insights into the environmental liability of companies in the European Union. It analyses the role of companies within the Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) and pays attention to potential hurdles that may limit the possibility to hold companies liable for environmental harm. Various remedies to the limited liability of the corporation are discussed ...
Normas de Derecho civil sobre robótica
La Comisión de Asuntos Jurídicos (JURI) ha presentado un informe con recomendaciones a la Comisión sobre aspectos de Derecho civil y éticos de la robótica. El informe pide legislación de la Unión para introducir un registro de robots, establecer una agencia de la Unión especializada en robótica y sentar principios de responsabilidad civil por los daños causados por robots. Esta legislación debería complementarse con códigos de conducta ética.
Cross-Border Traffic Accidents in the EU - The Potential Impact of Driverless Cars
Commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the JURI committee, this study provides an analysis of the potential legal impact of the introduction of connected and autonomous vehicles on rules of private international law determining jurisdiction and applicable law in the EU Member States in the event of a cross-border traffic accident. Following a case-studies approach, it makes a number of recommendations to improve ...
Ethical Aspects of Cyber-Physical Systems
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are intelligent robotics systems, linked with the Internet of Things, or technical systems of networked computers, robots and artificial intelligence that interact with the physical world.The project 'Ethical aspects of CPS' aims to provide insights into the potential ethical concerns and related unintended impacts of the possible evolution of CPS technology by 2050. The overarching purpose is to support the European Parliament, the parliamentary bodies, and the individual ...