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EU Products Law – 2025/2026 Edition
23 May 2025
A Global Hogan Lovells Guide to Product Liability, Product Safety and Product Compliance for the Automotive, Consumer, Electronics, Machinery and Robotics Industries by Dr. Sebastian Polly with contributions from our Global Products Law Practice.
Product liability, product safety and product compliance require utmost attention. They are imperative not only to ensure product marketability but also to protect the company, its brands, its products, its markets and its decision makers from legal risks. Accordingly, they are vital for a company's reputation and success.
Legal challenges during the entire product life-cycle require a holistic approach with elaborated internal processes. This is particularly true because civil, criminal and public law provisions in the EU have become increasingly complex, extensive and strict.
This guide provides a summary of the legal landscape in the EU as well as practical guidance, particularly on how to prevent or handle a product crisis.
In doing so, this guide is structured into the following three parts:
- Part 1: The EU product liability, product safety and product compliance landscape (including product conformity and product integrity)
- Part 2: Market-by-market guidance on a selection of key jurisdictions (with contributions from our Global Products Law Practice including certain key EU Member States as well as major non-EU jurisdictions)
- Part 3: Compilation of certain main EU products law provisions (including excerpts from the PLD, GPSR, TAFR)
The book includes contributions from Hogan Lovells Products Law teams around the world including Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hongkong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Authored by Dr. Sebastian Polly, Munich, Isabel Costa Carvalho, São Paulo, Roy Zou, Beijing, Jessie Xie, Beijing, Carol Shao, Beijing, Olivia Xie, Beijing, Christelle Coslin, Paris, Christine Gateau, Paris, Christophe Garin, Paris, Sarah de Magalhaes, Paris, Bérengère Moin, Paris, Dr. Tobias Ackermann, Munich, Matthias Kemmer, Munich, Franziska Zeiler, Munich, Maximilian Prussky, Munich, Julia Wilkes, Munich, Lena Obenhuber, Munich, Viktoriya Tomova, Munich, Mariana Iotenko, Munich, Mark Lin, HongKong, Byron Phillips, HongKong, Tommy Liu, HongKong, Nicola Choi, HongKong, Christian Di Mauro, Milan, Francesca Rolla, Milan, Alessandro Borrello, Milan, Guido Di Stefano, Milan, Wataru Kamoto, Tokyo, Jacky Scanlan-Dyas, Tokyo, Viet Nguyen, Tokyo, Jumpei Sato, Tokyo, Yasuyuki Shirabe, Tokyo, William Tan, Tokyo, Reina Goto, Tokyo, Omar Guerrero R., Mexico City, Ernesto Algaba R., Mexico City, Mauricio E. Llamas, Mexico City, Cecilia Stahlhut E., Mexico City, Juan Arturo Dueñas R., Mexico City, Mauricio Villegas, Mexico City, Paola Neri, Mexico City, Sofia de Llano, Mexico City, Manon Cordewener, Amsterdam, Gonzalo Ardila, Madrid, Margarita Morales, Madrid, Fátima Mallén, Madrid, Matthew Felwick, London, Valerie Kenyon, London, Lydia Savill, London, Lucy Ward, London, Lookman Rawat, London, Magdalena Bakowska, London, Karishma Paroha, London, Olivier Swain, London, Eshana Subherwal, London, Emmie Le Marchand, London, Vicki Kooner, London, Dr. Lara Knight, London, Conor Johnston, London, Femi Williams, London, Lucy Dickinson Green, London, Lorena Baltazar, London, Josh Lister, London, Farheen Ahmed, London, Dr. Rachel Gribben, London, Connor Gott, London, Ari Q. Fitzgerald, Washington, D.C., Lauren S. Colton, Baltimore, Michael L. Kidney, Washington, D.C., Joanne Rotondi, Washington, D.C., Kelly Tubman Hardy, Baltimore, Jaqueline Glassman, Washington, D.C., Hannah M. Graae, Washington, D.C., and Katherine Culora, Washington, D.C.
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