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Industry View: EU Plans To Extend Product Liability Rules Bad News For Medtech

 
• By Eliza Slawther

A proposed revision to the European Commission’s Product Liability Directive that will extend user compensation eligibility to products such as medical smartphone apps could “needlessly disrupt” innovation in the EU, trade group MedTech Europe warns.

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Manufacturers of medical devices that include artificial intelligence (AI) components, as well as the developers of digital health apps, could have yet another EU legislative hurdle to contend with.

Updates to the EU’s Product Liability Directive have been set out by the commission and will see the directive’s...

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