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 …

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Unless the EU institutions introduce rules for reasonable spare part prices and ban anti-repair practices preventing the use of compatible and reused spare parts, we don’t see how European consumers will get any better access to affordable repairs.

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As the Trilogues between the three European institutions begin, these are the six priority points we urge negotiators to maintain in the final compromise on new repair rules

The European Parliament showed resounding support for consumers’ right to repair during today’s pivotal vote on the «Common rules promoting the repair of goods». The position of the Council of the EU’s unfortunately represents a step back and we are now calling on interninstitutional negotiators to keep the Parliament’s ambitius provisions in the final text.