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! 

New York’s Right To Repair Act –  a big step for repair, but big tech managed to considerably slim it down. Tractor manufacturer – and long-standing opponent to R2R – John Deere signed a repair agreement with US farmers. Will they actually respect it? 

We celebrate an important repair win on part pairing: this directive finally bans software tricks which hinder the replacement of batteries. We regret however, that an exemption for products used in wet conditions leaves many products such as electric toothbrushes with hardly replaceable batteries.