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产品责任法律适用公约（1977年10月1日生效） Convention on the Law applicable to products liability(英文版) Http:///en/ins/110.html The States signatory to the present Convention, Desiring to establish common provisions on the law applicable, in international cases, to products liability, Have resolved to conclude a Convention to this effect and have agreed upon the following provisions: Article 1 This Convention shall determine the law applicable to the liability of the manufacturers and other persons specified in Article 3 for damage caused by a product, including damage in consequence of a misdescription of the product or of a failure to give adequate notice on its qualities, its characteristics or its method of use. Where the property in, or the right to use, the product was transferred to the person suffering damage by the person claimed to be liable, the Convention shall not apply to their liability inter se. This Convention shall apply irrespective of the nature of the proceedings. Article 2 For the purposes of this Convention: a) the word product shall include natural and industrial products, whether raw or manufactured and whether movable or immovable; b) the word damage shall mean injury to the person or damage to property as well as economic loss; however, damage to the product itself and the consequential economic loss shall be excluded unless associated with other damage; c) the word person shall refer to a legal person as well as to a natural person. Article 3 This Convention shall apply to the liability of the following persons: (1) manufacturers of a finished product or of a component part; (2) producers of a natural product; (3) suppliers of a product; (4) other persons, including repairers and warehousemen, in the commercial chain of preparation or distribution of a product. It shall also apply to the liability of the agents or employees of the persons specified above. Article 4 The applicable law shall be the internal law of the State of the place of injury, i