Page "Product liability" Paragraph 27

Moves towards a strict liability regime in Europe began with the Council of Europe Convention on Products Liability in regard to Personal Injury and Death ( the Strasbourg Convention ) in 1977.

On July 25, 1985, the European Economic Community adopted the Product Liability Directive 85 / 374 / EEC.

In language similar to Traynor's, the Directive stated that " liability without fault on the part of the producer is the sole means of adequately solving the problem, peculiar to our age of increasing technicality, of a fair apportionment of the risks inherent in modern technological production.

" However, the Directive also gave each member state the option of imposing a liability cap of 70 million euros per defect.