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EU Product Liability Directive
EU Product Liability Directive compliance checks
Directive (EU) 2024/2853, in national law by 9 December 2026. Software and AI are products, liability needs no proof of fault, and a court can presume a product defective if the maker cannot disclose the evidence.
15 controls, each a live check with a tamper-evident receipt. Run the whole framework at once from any AI assistant with sebbi_run_framework and framework=pld.
- PLD - software and AI products in scope identified
- PLD - inventory of AI and software products on the EU market
- PLD - version history kept for every release
- PLD - security update policy for the product's expected life
- PLD - automatic logs of what the AI did in use
- PLD - logs are tamper-evident and stand up as evidence
- PLD Art.9 - procedure to disclose evidence fast on a court order
- PLD - pre-release safety testing results kept
- PLD - controls on changes after release (updates, self-learning)
- PLD - incident and complaint log
- PLD - modifications reviewed (a substantial modification makes you the manufacturer)
- PLD - supplier contracts cover liability and evidence sharing
- PLD - cybersecurity measures in place
- PLD - product liability insurance covers software and AI
- PLD - records kept >= 10 years (the liability period)