Right to Repair Europe Feedback to the Environmental Omnibus

Publication date: September 2025
Resource added: 11 September 2025

Simplifying Environmental Legislation Without Weakening Ambition

The Right to Repair Europe coalition welcomes the EU Commission’s commitment to simplifying environmental legislation. To achieve EU circular economy goals, there is an urgent need to streamline rules applying to circular businesses, such as repairers and refurbishers. However, simplification must be carried out carefully and transparently, with the clear purpose of strengthening – not weakening – environmental and circular policies. Past omnibus packages, despite assurances of the contrary, did in fact lower environmental protection. The European Commission must ensure this does not happen again in the context of products and waste regulation, particularly given the genuine opportunities to cut administrative burden while maintaining high environmental ambition. Please find hereunder our input on: removing unnecessary administrative barriers in Ecodesign regulation to accelerate the Right to Repair; simplifying and harmonising EPR systems at EU level to reflect the waste hierarchy and promote reuse.