Placing on the market

Posted Sep 25, 2023 16:13 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Placing on the market by nim-nim
Parent article: The European Cyber Resilience Act

But that's easy. If you are selling the product you are responsible to your customers.

If your supplier goes bust, that's no excuse!

It's the same as all these companies supplying TVs with GPL'd firmware, but their suppliers didn't give them the software. The US may be rubbish at enforcing it, but in the EU it only takes a company to get dinged twice for repeatedly importing products they are unable to comply with the licence for, and the typical EU remedy would be "next time you import a product, you have to prove to Import that you have the software you need to comply with your obligations".

I gather they did manage to get that through in the US, but it would have been so much easier here - "repeat offender? You need to PROVE you're compliant before you can resume business".

Cheers,
Wol