Personal injury and property
Covered categories include death or personal injury, including medically recognised damage to psychological health. Property damage has exclusions, including the defective product itself, certain damage to the finished product by an integrated component and property used exclusively for professional purposes. Keep the damaged item and its use clear.
Data and resulting losses
Article 6 includes destruction or corruption of data not used for professional purposes. It covers material losses resulting from the specified damage and non-material losses to the extent compensable under national law. A data leak or pure disappointment is not automatically the same as destruction or corruption.
Different regimes may remain relevant
Article 6 does not displace national compensation rules under other liability regimes. A commercial loss excluded here may still require contract, negligence or another statutory analysis. Do not use the Directive's scope to assert that no remedy exists, or to estimate compensation without the relevant national basis.
Records that help the review
Use the following as a practical starting point. Select and preserve records appropriate to the product, incident and applicable procedure.
- Nature and date of the harm
- Property identity and actual use
- Medical or restoration evidence where relevant
- Loss calculation with applicable national basis
This site does not calculate compensation or assess whether an individual loss is recoverable.
Primary sources and legal scope
This page explains the EU Directive framework. Check national implementing law, the corrected temporal scope and relevant procedure before applying it to a case.
- Directive (EU) 2024/2853, consolidated text: Articles 5, 6 ↗
- Official Journal corrigendum, 7 May 2026: Article 2(1) ↗
Source register: corrected scope verified 16 October 2026. Article references identify the legal basis. No qualified legal review or national implementation status is claimed.