Pro­duct com­pli­ance requi­re­ments are incre­asing due to ever more com­plex regulations

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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