Current developments in product safety laws

Jens-Uwe Heuer

For a relatively long period of time, so-called product safety laws did not cause much of a stir. Nevertheless, these laws are of great practical importance in the field of technical documentation, e.g. in the form of the EC machine guideline. There are now changes taking place in the legal field, as a result of two legislation initiatives, which need to be worked out with regard to technical documentation. On the one hand, it concerns new equipment and product safety law and on the other hand, consumer information law.