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EU · Product Liability Directive (Dir 2024/2853)
Software/AI product-liability evidence.
What the signed record shows
The proof is a signed, tamper-evident record. Anyone can check it, without an account, and nothing has to leave the building to make it. Evidence, not a promise.
Citation: Dir (EU) 2024/2853 Arts 9/10/7/8
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What to do about it
A signed record of which AI you used and what you checked, sealed to the exact file you deliver, made on your own machine and checkable free by anyone you send it to.
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What the statute requires, section by section
Directive (EU) 2024/2853 on liability for defective products, repealing Council Directive 85/374/EEC. The definition of "product" expressly covers software, including AI systems. Provisions addressed:
- Art. 9
- Disclosure of evidence: a court may order the defendant to disclose relevant evidence at its disposal (proportionate; trade-secret protections apply).
- Art. 10
- Presumptions of defectiveness and causation, including a presumption of defectiveness where the defendant fails to comply with the Art. 9 disclosure obligation (rebuttable).
- Art. 7
- Defectiveness (assessment factors, incl. the ability to continue to learn and product presentation).
- Art. 8
- Damage (including destruction or corruption of data not used for professional purposes). Transposition deadline 9 December 2026; applies to products placed on the market or put into service on or after that date.
Taken from the Regulayer™ entry for this instrument, which is built against the primary text.
This is the duty on the business. For what a lawyer in Europe must disclose about using AI in a filing, see Europe: the EU AI Act, the CCBE guides, and what Germany tells its lawyers.