BelgiumAvant-projet de loi (Council of Ministers, 18 July 2026), partial transposition of Directive (EU) 2024/2853 on liability for defective products
Avant-projet de loi modifiant les dispositions du Code civil relatives à la responsabilité du fait des produits défectueux et insérant l’article 877/1 dans le Code judiciaire
Approved by the executive for transmission to the legislature, dated , as of .
A product liability rule.
As of .
Where it has got to
The text described here is Communiqué du Conseil des ministres du 18 juillet 2026 Transposition de la directive européenne relative à la responsabilité du fait des produits défectueux, published .
Locally, this stage is approbation d'un avant-projet de loi par le Conseil des ministres.
The stage above is recorded at news.belgium.be.
Only the announcement of the Council of Ministers describes the preliminary draft. It was sent to the Council of State for its opinion.
What it requires
- Answer for a defective product under the Civil Code provisions on liability for defective products, which the draft amends; the draft also inserts Article 877/1 into the Judicial Code.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
What this law does
The Council of Ministers approved a preliminary draft law that partially transposes Directive (EU) 2024/2853 into Belgian law. The Council of Ministers met on . The preliminary draft is sent to the Council of State for its opinion. The preliminary draft is titled as a draft law amending the Civil Code provisions on liability for defective products and inserting Article 877/1 into the Judicial Code.
The Council of Ministers' announcement describes the Directive as setting up a liability regime without fault in favor of natural persons who suffer bodily injury or damage caused by defective products. The announcement says the draft pursues objectives of adapting the present rules to the circular economy and new global supply chains, to new technologies including artificial intelligence, and of lightening the victim's burden of proof.
The announcement says the draft also clarifies fundamental notions and concepts and takes account of recent case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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