Dispatches
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A data centre can have world-class redundancy and still lack a complete account of what actually existed when something went wrong.
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.
the approved Croatia/14 Member States summary
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.