Safety defects – economic operators’ liability and obligations
Economic operators have an obligation under the Danish Products and Market Surveillance Act only to market products that are safe and to take relevant measures if a product turns out to be dangerous. In this article, the author summaries the obligations on economic operators to take safety measures with regard to dangerous products and the Danish Safety Technology Authority’s possibility of issuing orders to enforce such measures. The article also outlines users’ possibilities of claiming defects and damages from economic operators whose products turn out to be dangerous and therefore necessitate safety measures.
The article is written by attorney and director Jakob Dahl Mikkelsen and originally published in Danish in Erhvervsjuridisk Tidsskrift. The text has been translated by Charlotte Juul Henriksen from our in-house translation team.
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