Abstract
An effort to respond adequately to the current challenges associated with use of new technologies has given rise to various legal initiatives (not only) at EU level. One of these has been proposal to grant the most sophisticated autonomous products (robots) the status of ("electronic") persons. Naturally, this raises new legal and ethical questions, inter alia, in relation to the obligation to provide compensation for harm caused by such a product (person).
The paper briefly examines the (in)applicability of Directive 85/374/EEC in response to the challenges posed by new technologies, then, the definition of the product as object and subject in the context of new technologies (the status of "electronic person"), and, in addition, discusses selected related legal issues and alternatives for their resolution at EU and Czech Republic level.