ELI Innovation Paper Guiding Principles for Updating the Product Liability Directive for the Digital Age

ELI Innovation Papers

Launched in 2020, the aim of the new ELI Innovation Paper Series is to enable ELI Members to propose pioneering legal or multidisciplinary ideas, which deserve the attention of the European legal community and aim at improving European law. The Innovation Papers contain concrete proposals for relevant stakeholders and may resemble ELI project output (such as draft legislation, model rules, principles, checklists or position papers – more information about ELI projects is available here). They are, however, usually shorter than ELI projects (typically not more than 10 pages, including the Executive Summary) and may potentially be of a more tentative nature. It is not necessary that Innovation Papers are the result of comprehensive research, but they should possibly serve as inspiration to other stakeholders and be a catalyst for discussion. Innovation Papers, which begin by the submission of a proposal to the ELI Secretariat on the opening of a call, may be followed by an ELI project.

About & Outcome

In January 2021, ELI published the ‘Guiding Principles for Updating the EU Product Liability Directive for the Digital Age’, which set out concrete propositions for updating the EU Product Liability Directive with a view to adapt it to the digital age. The Guiding Principles were prepared by Professor Christian Twigg-Flesner (University of Warwick) in consultation with ELI Members and adopted by the ELI Council.