Revised Product Liability Directive
source ↗EUR-LexExtends strict defect liability to standalone software and AI — including systems that continue learning post-deployment. Covers physical harm, property damage, psychological health impairment and non-professional data loss; disclosure duties and rebuttable defect presumption shift the burden of proof toward the injured party. Makes reconstructible decision evidence an economic necessity.
2 components0 articles / obligations6 triggering use casesopen in graph WORM / Immutable Audit Vault
83% of use casesAppend-only, hash-chained audit vault (WORM object-lock storage, AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit). Guarantees tamper-evidence within the organization's trust domain — which stops your own team, but not an admin who can rebuild the vault. Pair with an external trust anchor and key ceremonies outside the operating team for evidence that holds against the insider scenario.
- named in regulationRevised Product Liability Directive → WORM / Immutable Audit Vault
- evidence artefactRevised Product Liability Directive → Event Logs & Decision Traces → produced by WORM / Immutable Audit VaultEvent Logs & Decision Traces
OpenTelemetry / FCoT Tracing
50% of use casesHierarchical trace spans for every sub-task, prompt, retrieved document and API call — the reconstructible decision path for Art. 12/14 and PLD disclosure.
- named in regulationRevised Product Liability Directive → OpenTelemetry / FCoT Tracing
- evidence artefactRevised Product Liability Directive → Event Logs & Decision Traces → produced by OpenTelemetry / FCoT TracingEvent Logs & Decision Traces