Several smartphone brands have recently started making spare parts more easily available than they used to. Sadly, many barriers remain, including repair-unfriendly design and lack of long-term software support. The latest example from Nokia is a case in point.

The EU Commission launched today a very limited but essential text of the EU Right to Repair proposal. We welcome the step forward, but note the EU’s lack of ambition to make repairability an affordable reality.

While we wait for the proposal of new consumer legislation to promote repair from the EU Commission, success stories from member states provide wonderful examples of far-reaching measures on repair that we’d like to see at EU level.

We have teamed up with many other NGOs to call upon all EU policymakers to protect consumers against greenwashing, early obsolescence and other unfair practices

Let’s have a look at ongoing and upcoming 2023 legislative processes which bear potential for the right to repair!