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EU consumer product repairability and Right to Repair: Ecodesign Regulation, Consumer Rights Directive and Sale of Goods Directive—manufacturer obligations, consumer remedies, information duties and repair platforms (2024–2028)

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Addressing the triple planetary crisis (ie the interlinked challenges of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss) requires producers and purchasers to make and use goods far more sustainably. EU product rules are progressively shaped and updated so that sustainability is embedded across every stage of the product lifecycle. This Practice Note sets out EU measures aimed at securing product sustainability, with a specific emphasis on provisions that enable and promote product ‘repairability’. Core instruments include Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 (the EU Ecodesign Regulation), Directive 2011/83/EU (the EU Consumer Rights Directive (EU CRD)), as amended by Directive (EU) 2024/825 (the EU Empowering Consumers Directive), and Directive (EU) 2024/1799 (the EU Right to Repair Directive).

Policy context—transition towards a fully circular economy in the EU

On 11 March 2020, within the framework of the European Green Deal, the Commission adopted a Circular Economy Action Plan. This plan shifted the EU’s circular economy agenda from a waste-management emphasis to the whole lifecycle of products. Initiatives and laws arising from it address product design, foster circular-economy practices, support sustainable consumption, and seek to ensure that waste is...

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