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ECIPE paper puts economic cost of revised Product Liability Directive

ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon, Oscar Guinea and Philipp Lamprecht estimate the revised Product Liability Directive, which extends liability to software and AI, cuts EU GDP by 0.17 to 0.24 percent and imports by up to EUR 36.5 million a year through a reversed burden of proof and higher insurance costs.

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Verified Opinion AI-drafted ECIPE occasional paper, 13 May 2026

What it does not test. Does not establish that the Commission will revise the Directive in response.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. Opinion costing an EU-wide liability law; moves no question itself. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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