Category: Regulation & compliance

EU’s Artificial Intelligence Regulation – Tough Tests for Smart Products

Rod Freeman and Patrick Van Eecke

EU proposal extends product safety, data protection and cybersecurity concepts to groundbreaking AI regulation

Have your say on sustainability – current EU and UK consultations on proposed sustainability initiatives for products

Edward Turtle and Tracey Bischofberger

The EU and UK are running two important consultations on proposed initiatives to make products more sustainable. To find out more, read our summary below.

EU adopts triple whammy of single market guidance

Edward Turtle and Carol Holley

The guidance covers the Mutual Recognition Regulation, Compliance and Enforcement Regulation and free movement of goods.

Europe Pilots Green Consumption Pledge

Edward Turtle and Carol Holley

The Pledge is intended to encourage voluntary commitments by businesses.

European Commission Publishes 2020 Product Safety Review

Rod Freeman and Julia Maskell

COVID-19 shifts the focus of product safety reports in Europe, but the usual trends continue.

FCC sets its sights on product compliance breaches

J.G. Harrington and Henry Wendel

We provide an update on some recent FCC decisions that act as a reminder to companies designing, manufacturing and marketing electronic devices of the importance of thorough pre-market review procedures.

See EU later (part 3) – the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement and its impact on products regulation

Claire Temple , Edward Turtle and Tracey Bischofberger

On 24 December 2020, the EU and the UK reached a deal on the terms of their future free trade and cooperation agreement. Here’s our summary of some of the key impacts on products regulation.

WEBCAST: Liability in Times of Change for the Life Sciences Industry

The growth of digital health technologies and artificial intelligence raises novel risks, including data protection and cybersecurity risks, and key questions about the liability of services and software as a product remain unanswered. Wearables are blurring the line between consumer technology and medical devices, and consumer health data has the […]