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.
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.
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.