EU & UK Product Compliance 2026: What’s Hot Now – and What to Watch Next

Webinar Overview

Get ahead of the latest EU & UK product compliance developments and what lies ahead.

The EU and UK product regulatory landscape continues to evolve at pace. As major reforms introduced in recent years begin to take effect, businesses face an increasingly complex compliance environment, with significant legislative and policy developments still on the horizon.

• In the EU, legislators and policymakers have turned their attention to digitalising product and compliance information, modernising consumer protection rules for the digital age, strengthening enforcement and advancing circular economy objectives, while also pursuing initiatives aimed at simplifying compliance requirements and reducing regulatory burdens.
• In parallel, the UK is undertaking a once-in-a-generation overhaul of its product safety framework while enforcing significant new consumer protection rules.

Join us for an update on the latest developments in EU and UK product regulation, the key initiatives shaping the regulatory agenda, and what product stakeholders should be doing now to prepare for the changes ahead.

Webinar Agenda

• Current trends in EU & UK product and sustainability regulation and what’s on the horizon
• What’s hot in EU product regulation?
  • Digitalising product and compliance information: update on Omnibus IV (digitisation and common specifications) and the roll-out of DPPs 
  • Right to repair: implementation of the R2R Directive, the proposed horizontal measure on repairability under the ESPR and update on proposed exemptions to the Batteries Regulation’s removability and replaceability requirements
  • Updating consumer protection rules for the digital age: upcoming proposal for a Digital Fairness Act 
  • Strengthening enforcement: upcoming proposal for a European Product Act, CPC Regulation reform and the recent customs overhaul
• What’s hot in UK product regulation?
  • Consultations on product safety reform
  • DMCCA enforcement 
• What’s hot in ESG and sustainability regulation?
  • Upcoming implementation deadlines for key EU rules (PPWR, ESPR, ECGTD, EUDR, and the Forced Labour Regulation)
  • Stock take on recent EU simplification initiatives and omnibus proposals (CSRD, disclosure standards, CSDDD and EU Batteries Regulation supply chain diligence)
  • Proposed Circular Economy Act

Date

This webinar will take place on Wednesday, 12th August, 2026 at 08:00 PDT, 11:00 EDT, 17:00 CET.

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Presenters

Claire Temple, Partner, Cooley

Claire is a partner in Cooley’s Products team. She specialises in advising clients on regulatory risk, compliance and litigation issues. She helps clients who deal with products and consumers. Claire works with them to help bring both digital and physical products to market, advising on labelling, packaging, regulatory approvals and engaging with regulators and consumers. She also has significant expertise in coordinating and delivering business critical international regulatory and compliance advice and delivering complex multi-jurisdictional projects.

Claire also advises clients when things go wrong – such as dealing with regulatory and compliance issues, crisis management, handling and coordinating regulatory crises, product recalls and product compliance matters, managing customer relations and claims and investigating and defending regulatory investigations and prosecutions.
Claire is recommended within the Product Liability category by the latest 2026 edition of the UK Legal 500.

Emma Bichet, Partner, Cooley

Emma is a Partner and leads Cooley’s ESG (environmental, social and governance) and sustainability advisory practice in Europe. She has extensive experience advising on EU and UK ESG, sustainability and products law matters.

Emma has a strong grasp of ESG and products regulation, working with the world’s top companies to clarify their obligations in the EU and UK. She advises on the full range of sustainability issues, including reporting obligations under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, supply chain diligence, forced labour, deforestation and product-related sustainability requirements, such as ecodesign, chemical compliance, packaging and recycling obligations. She also supports clients with their marketing and claims.

Emma has experience making complaints to the European Commission on behalf of her clients and supporting them in litigation before the EU courts. She regularly manages multijurisdictional compliance projects for her clients.

Emma is also very active in horizon spotting, keeping abreast of new EU, UK and global initiatives to assist clients wishing to provide input on the legislative process and adapt their business in time when new rules are developed.