Legal {#6} requires that a product does not violate laws and legal standards; it influences:

• Legal, industrial and environmental standards compliance
• Product validation
• Intellectual Property maintenance and adherence
• Documentation
• Product setup, installation, calibration and test
• Packaging
• Product tracking and change processing
• Training
• Supplier and production relations and negotiations
• Customer warranties, service (charges) and support
• Product quality, reliability and liability
• Product related insurance and licensing requirements
• Generation of environmental effluence
• Consumable, fuel an energy requirements
• Installation inspection, cleanup
• End-of-Life requirements and procedures

For example, all product claims must be validated to the laws and legal standards of the countries in which the product is sold.