Modern technologies enable traders to design more personal and comprehensive product labelling, as well as to improve product traceability through the supply chain. Personalised and comprehensive product information could raise consumers' product awareness, shaping new consumers' product and safety expectations. The improved product traceability through the supply chain could extend the producers' control over the product, beyond the moment the product left the manufacturing process. This paper examines the impact of modern technologies on European rules of product liability. Specifically, it considers whether the recognition of a defective product in the currently reviewed Product Liability Directive should continue to follow the test of the public's safety expectations, as well as whether producers could continue to rely on the defence of a product not being defective when they put it into circulation.
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Luzak, J. (2020). A broken notion: Impact of modern technologies on product liability. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 11(3), 630–649. https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2020.13
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