When Information Becomes Awareness
CRA Article 14 defines the reporting clock. But another interval matters first: how long does it take an organisation to recognise that an ordinary operational signal may have become a regulatory question?
Dispatches
The Readiness Directive publishes independent analysis on product liability, product safety, product integrity and organisational readiness.
The focus is not only on what new rules require. It is on what organisations must be able to see, govern, evidence and defend across the product lifecycle.
Latest intelligence
Recent dispatches examine:
- the Product Liability Directive and national implementation;
- the Cyber Resilience Act;
- the AI Act;
- product intelligence and signal visibility;
- insurance, governance and board accountability;
- the operating disciplines behind defensibility.
New dispatches are published regularly.
When Safety Exists Between Systems
A hospital fire reveals how individually governed systems can create combined safety conditions. What Turku teaches us about Product Integrity, evidence, system interaction and the revised EU Product Liability Directive.
The Control Exists. Does It Still Work?
A legacy recall still in service, certified safety footwear failing market checks, and a new cyber reporting clock all expose the same weakness: controls must continue to work.
EU Product Liability Directive Implementation Monitor - September 2026
EU-27 implementation of Directive (EU) 2024/2853 is moving further into formal legislative machinery. September status: 3 adopted/notified, 7 parliamentary/draft, 11 pipeline active, and 6 with no public legislative step identified.
The product was secure at launch. That is no longer the question.
Connected products do not remain in one cybersecurity state. Updates, dependencies, support conditions and installed-base divergence mean assurance must be governed throughout the lifecycle
Safe Products Should Not Depend on Where You Live
Products now move globally with extraordinary ease. Consumer protection does not. This article examines what that gap means for families, governments, businesses and the people quietly working to make product safety real.
Your cybersecurity records are becoming liability evidence
From 11 September 2026, the Cyber Resilience Act begins creating a timed regulatory record of what manufacturers know about actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe security incidents. That evidence may later matter far beyond cybersecurity compliance.
The Visibility Gap, Part 4
The internal translation layer: where product safety signals become organisational decisions
EU Product Liability Directive Implementation Monitor - August 2026
EU-27 implementation of Directive (EU) 2024/2853 is moving into formal legislative machinery. August status: 3 adopted/notified, 6 parliamentary, 12 pipeline, and 6 with no public legislative step identified.
The Visibility Gap, Part 3
Public product safety data reveals formal action, but not every weak signal, unresolved investigation or hidden risk that preceded it.
The Visibility Gap, Part 2
Before a public alert appears, organisations must detect, interpret, escalate and classify emerging product safety signals. This article examines how that journey works across the EU, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Product Integrity Spotlight 01: Data Centres
A data centre can have world-class redundancy and still lack a complete account of what actually existed when something went wrong.
The Visibility Gap, Part 1
Product safety systems were built to detect danger early. The harder question now is whether they can still see clearly enough.
Are you protected, or just assured?
Insurance can absorb part of the financial impact of a product-liability event. It cannot establish facts, coordinate the first response, preserve evidence or create command when a serious product issue emerges.
EU Product Liability Directive Implementation: State of Play -July 2026
the approved Croatia/14 Member States summary
You Don’t Own the Risk You See. You Own the Risk You Can’t Prove
Executive confidence is not enough. Under the new EU product-liability regime, organisations must be able to reconstruct what they knew, what they decided and why.
Most companies have product data. Few have product intelligence.
Turning product and regulatory signals into something a board can act on, before harm, claim or regulator arrives.
UK: the EU Product Liability Directive
For UK manufacturers, proximity to the EU is not protection. This edition reads the gap under the Product Liability Directive.
India: the EU Product Liability Directive
Readiness under the EU Product Liability Directive as a trust advantage for Indian manufacturers and exporters.
USA: the EU Product Liability Directive
US product-liability maturity does not equal EU readiness. Reading the gap for manufacturers and importers.