Repair labels, spare parts and longer support for smartphones and tablets as of June 2025 – but we need more repairable designs
Industry pushback successfully blocked more ambitious user-repairability.
Industry pushback successfully blocked more ambitious user-repairability.
Our message to the Commissioner designate for a Competitive Circular Economy.
Access the recording and resources from our webinar on the state of right to repair in Europe, in occasion of International Repair Day 2024.
The new ESPR regulation has the potential to cover nearly all product groups and to tackle environmental impacts from manufacturing to end-of-life. However to which extent it will concretely address reparability, durability, and premature obsolescence is still to be determined in secondary legislation.
This article exposes the unfair reality of spare part prices. To make repair affordable, we need reasonable prices for original parts, clear acceptance for the use of compatible parts (third party, used or 3D-printed) and a solid ban on parts pairing.