After 40 years, the European Union has finally replaced the “old” law on liability for defective products, Council Directive 85/374/EEC, by a “new” Product Liability Directive 2024/2853 (PLD). The PLD harmonizes and increases the level of protection of natural persons within the internal market and provides for a much-needed adaptation of the law to the
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Bipartisan Push to Strengthen American Supply Chains
Members of the Senate Commerce Committee have demonstrated an early bipartisan interest in continuing to promote U.S. supply chain resilience, highlighting an avenue for bipartisanship in the Trump Administration’s foreign policy agenda.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) has partnered with Democratic colleagues as an original cosponsor on the reintroduction of two pieces of legislation aimed at…
Where Are My Chips?
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If you subscribe to the view that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to change life as we know it, then you will have a vested interest in the semiconductor industry. Semiconductors, or chips, are the workhorses behind AI and nearly every modern digital technology. Chips are so vital…
Supply Chain Legislation On The Horizon
On May 15, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2023 by a vote of 390 to 19. The bill, authored by Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Rep. Larry Bucshon M.D. (R-Ind.), is a bi-partisan effort and collaboration between the federal government and private entities to “map[], monitor[],…