Article 7 — Defectiveness
Product Liability Directive, Directive (EU) 2024/2853
What does PRODUCT-LIABILITY Article 7 say?
Short answer, straight from the official text
1. A product shall be considered defective where it does not provide the safety that a person is entitled to expect or that is required under Union or national law. 2.
Source: Product Liability Directive, Directive (EU) 2024/2853, read 2026-10-13.
| In the act | EU 2024/2853 |
| CELEX | 32024L2853 |
| Read on | 2026-10-13 |
Official text
Read from the EU Publications Office for this CELEX number. The wording stands as published; nothing here is rewritten or summarised.
Jump to a point: Point 1 · Point 2 · Point 3 · Point 4 · Point 5 · Point 6 · Point 7 · Point 8 · Point 9 · Point 10 · Point 11
1. A product shall be considered defective where it does not provide the safety that a person is entitled to expect or that is required under Union or national law.
2. In assessing the defectiveness of a product, all circumstances shall be taken into account, including:
(a) the presentation and the characteristics of the product, including its labelling, design, technical features, composition and packaging and the instructions for its assembly, installation, use and maintenance;
(b) reasonably foreseeable use of the product;
(c) the effect on the product of any ability to continue to learn or acquire new features after it is placed on the market or put into service;
(d) the reasonably foreseeable effect on the product of other products that can be expected to be used together with the product, including by means of inter-connection;
(e) the moment in time when the product was placed on the market or put into service or, where the manufacturer retains control over the product after that moment, the moment in time when the product left the control of the manufacturer;
(f) relevant product safety requirements, including safety-relevant cybersecurity requirements;
(g) any recall of the product or any other relevant intervention relating to product safety by a competent authority or by an economic operator as referred to in Article 8;
(h) the specific needs of the group of users for whose use the product is intended;
(i) in the case of a product whose very purpose is to prevent damage, any failure of the product to fulfil that purpose.
The article continues in the official text.
Who does this apply to
The register names five roles. Open a role to see the duties this act places on it, each row with its article and its source.
Does this apply to us?
- Do ai governance rules apply to a manufacturer?
- Do personal data rules apply to a manufacturer?
- Do cross-border data rules apply to a manufacturer?
- Do cybersecurity rules apply to a manufacturer?
- Do health data rules apply to a manufacturer?
- Do online platforms rules apply to a manufacturer?
All roles in the register · All questions by role
The text is quoted from the official source and is not legal advice. A national court reads the language version that binds in its jurisdiction.
Back to the act · EU acts, read down to the national law
ExploreWorldAI is operated by Valkiv Ventures AB (Reg. no. 556995-1311), Kungsgatan 8, 111 43 Stockholm, Sweden. EU-hosted, with data processing assessed against the GDPR. Contact: hello@exploreworldai.com.
Machine-readable summaries for AI agents: /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt.
