11 marzo 2024

Blog post by Katrin Meyer (Runder Tisch Reparatur), and Magdolna Molnár (BTU Cottbus) Everyone is talking about the repair vouchers «Saving resources should pay off!» Last year over 71,000 people, together with the Runder Tisch Reparatur, the Inkota Network, and many other supporting organizations, demanded a repair voucher from the German federal government. In order …

20 febrero 2024

This article was written by Rosalie Heens from Repair&Share, with contributions from Thomas Opsomer and Flavie Vonderscher. New on the menu: Repair Index Belgian Style In January Belgium adopted a new law that obliges manufacturers and retailers to provide a repairability index for (certain) household appliances, from 2026. With this initiative, Belgium becomes the second …

12 febrero 2024

La coalición Right to Repair Europe, que representa a más de 130 organizaciones, celebra que las consumidoras europeas vayan a tener un mejor acceso a reparaciones asequibles para determinados productos, pero insta a que las normas sean más amplias. El jueves, los legisladores de la UE alcanzaron un acuerdo sobre nuevas normas de reparación. La …

8 febrero 2024

This post was written by Sonja Leyvraz from EEB Last Wednesday, the new Directive on Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition (ECGT) was finalised. The Right to Repair Europe coalition welcomes this step towards more clarity for consumers, as the law will restrict greenwashing practices and misleading green claims, including claims on reparability and durability …