Before the end of the legislative period we are experiencing a veritable flood of new regulations within the European Union concerning ecodesign, AI, product safety, the right to repair and much more
As a consequence, affected companies are reaching their limits, even if they had previously taken appropriate measures. In many companies product compliance is not just a function, but above all a person. A person trying to identify developments and taking them to the affected company units for implementation. This is by no means a holistic system.
With the increasing intensity, extensiveness and complexity of the new European regulations and an overall increase in attention from market surveillance, but also from competitors, this setup is reaching its natural limits. Both in terms of capacity and functionality.
Without systematically integrating particularly the supply chain right from the start into product development and into the sourcing of new products or new orders for existing products, it is no longer possible to guarantee complete, secure implementation of product compliance.
Better realisability through product compliance management systems
We are also experiencing this need to change from personalised to systematic product compliance in the regulations themselves, which, like Article 14 of the new General Product Safety Regulation, require corresponding internal systems. As always, legislators are unwilling or unable to describe these precisely or define minimum requirements. However, their existence is required.
The crux described above leads to an increased need for corresponding management systems, which have already established themselves linguistically as Product Compliance Management Systems and have become established in testing standards such as IDW PS 980 or in the VDA red volume Product Compliance.
Often, their structure and implementation in the company can not be mapped with the existing on-board resources. In corresponding projects with customers we provide systems that map the legal requirements and at the same time enable integration into traditional governance based on classic 3‑line models. Implementation, particularly with regard to the new General Product Safety Regulation, is due in December 2024, and the remaining time should urgently be used to establish appropriate systems.
reuschlaw Legal Monitoring Update
Such systems are used to implement regulatory requirements, which are still subject to constant change. Many companies use various sources to develop a forecast of upcoming regulatory changes. We have responded to the needs of our customers and developed a service product that supports customers by monitoring regulatory changes. The Legal Monitoring Update provides quarterly updates on the changes in the legal framework for the EU, starting from the 1st reading in the European Parliament and summarising the main impact on the affected company and its products.
In combination with a product compliance management system, the Legal Monitoring Update can free up a lot of product compliance capacity and fulfil legal requirements with a high degree of precision.
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