Objections to the development risk defence.
In Europe the Council Directive of the European Community relating to product liability was enacted in 1985. The Directive allows the producer to use six defences. One of these is particularly interesting: 'that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the time when he put the product into circulation was not such as to enable the existence of the defect to be discovered'.
Stolker
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Department of Civil Law, Leiden, University.
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