ANNEX B: COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 85/374/EEC OF 25 JULY 1985 ON LIABILITY FOR DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS Defences
A producer or importer can avoid liability if he can prove any of 6 defences:
	he did not supply the product;
	the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the time he supplied the product was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control;
	the defect was the inevitable consequence of complying with the law;
	the defect was not in the product at the time it was supplied;
	the product was not manufactured by him or supplied by him in the course of a business;
	(in the case of a producer of a component used in another product) the defect was due either to the design of the finished product, or to defective specifications given to the component manufacturer by the producer of the finished product.