Product Liability Directive (PLD)
Table of Contents
Chapter I – GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter II – SPECIFIC PROVISIONS ON LIABILITY FOR DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS
Chapter III – GENERAL PROVISIONS ON LIABILITY
Chapter IV – FINAL PROVISIONS
Recitals (64)
Annexes
Recital 9
(9) Under the national law of Member States, an injured person could have a claim for damages on the basis of contractual liability or on grounds of non-contractual liability that does not involve the manufacturer’s liability for the defectiveness of a product as established in this Directive. This concerns for example liability based on a warranty or on fault or strict liability of operators for damage caused by the properties of an organism resulting from genetic engineering. Such national law provisions, which serve to attain, inter alia, the objective of effective protection of consumers and other natural persons, should remain unaffected by this Directive.