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The Office for Product Safety and Standards has included these issues within its consultation. The measures consulted upon included responsibility for online marketplaces for the identification of potentially harmful or defective products being offered via their systems, so it is about transparency, identification and a take-down kind of provision. But it did not go so far as to create, as the European Union’s directive does, a liability directly for the harm done by products where they are responsible. The European Union’s directive is essentially about ensuring that in all cases there is a business domiciled within the European Union that is responsible and may be held liable for harmful or defective products. We do not have something like that at the moment, but we should.