tekom - Europe

Environment analysis

Legal requirements

Risks and dangers of the product
  • Risk assessment
  • Legal significance of the risk assessment
  • Types of risks and hazard classes (hazard levels)
  • Planning and carrying out a risk assessment
Product safety
  • Basics of product safety
  • Basics of product safety law
  • Characteristics of safe and unsafe products
  • Regulations on safety requirements
  • Requirements for information products due to product safety law
  • Manufacturer obligations for product monitoring
  • Organization and operation of market observation (e.g. at European level)
  • Methods to achieve or increase product safety (e.g. design measures, safety devices, safety and warning notices)
Duty to instruct
  • Requirements based on the duty to instruct: provisions on which types of information products must be supplied and according to which specifications (e.g. product safety law, EC Machinery Directive)
  • Documentation obligations due to legal requirements (laws and guidelines)
  • Implementation options for documentation obligations
Legal consequences
  • Principles of contractual liability
  • Main features of statutory product liability
  • Liability in the field of technical communication (e.g. personal and corporate liability)
  • Content requirements in product liability for information products
  • Formal requirements in product liability for information products
  • Possible legal consequences due to inadequate information products
  • Transposition of supranational law (e.g. EU directives) into national law; significance for product liability
Copyright and right of use
  • Basics of copyright law and the right of use (license law)
  • Relevance of copyright and usage rights in technical communication
  • Potential terms of use
  • Copyright for sources and requirements for the legally compliant use of sources (e.g. images, texts, software licenses)
  • Use of copyrighted material (e.g. software, images)
  • Legal situation when using open source
Data protection
  • Basics of data protection and data security (e.g. GDPR, secure storage, data protection agreements, deletion of personal data)
  • Relevance of data protection for technical communication
Product compliance
  • Basics of product compliance
  • Declarations of conformity in information products
  • Allocation of tasks and roles with regard to ensuring product compliance
  • Technical communication requirements for product compliance and placing products on the market
Legal research
  • Basics of legal research
  • Relevant legislation for the field of technical communication
  • Public sources of information and supply as well as information portals
Data and IT security
  • Data and IT security with regard to the content of the information product
  • Data and IT security in the creation process
  • Data and IT security with regard to the provision of the information product
  • Data and IT security with regard to the storage of personal data [DSGV]
Legal requirements for document management
  • Archiving of information products
  • Revision security
  • Retention periods
  • Storage locations
  • Consequences and liability for inadequate document management