News March 2026

Pros and Cons of the new French Decree n^o 2025-1191 of 10 December 2025 on the admission of associations and other bodies to conduct domestic and cross-border group actions and specifying their obligations regarding publication of their fundings.

In accordance with the DDADUE 5 law, France has published Decree No. 2025-1191 to create a clear legal framework for collective claims supported by third party funders. The framework includes processes for authorizing organisations to represent claimants in "actions de groupe" and the law imposes important new governance and transparency norms in the field of collective litigation in France.

As Sweden, Denmark, and Finland prepare to transpose the EU’s revised Product Liability Directive (PLD) into national law, a new ECIPE study argues the Nordic countries implementation of the directive will set a critical precedent for the rest of the EU. The report, Consumer Protection in the Age of AI, argues the Directive’s shift towards a US-style litigation model could threaten the proven and trusted consumer protection systems in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland.