The New EU Product Liability Directive (2024/2853) and Your Trade Fair Demos: What Changes from December 2026
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The new framework applies to products placed on the EU market after **8 December 2026** — three months from this article's publication.
AfterThe new framework applies to products placed on the EU market after **9 December 2026** — three months from this article's publication.
Why: 2 issues fixed: The correct application date for Directive (EU) 2024/2853 is 9 December 2026 (products placed on the market or put into service after that date), not 8 December 2026. The directive entered into force on 8 December 2024 (20 days after OJ publication on 18 November 2024), which appears to be the source of the off-by-one-day and off-by-two-year confusion in this article. Confirmed via EUR-Lex and multiple legal analyses (Gibson Dunn, Lexology, Cleary Gottlieb) citing 9 December 2026 as the application date. | Same date error repeated in the references list.
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