2022 promised to be a big year for repair.

While we wait for draft regulation on repairability of smartphones and tablets – due any day now, let’s take a look at all key legislative processes currently progressing at EU-level.

With this post by Stephen Wyber from Knowledge Rights 21 we begin to bring visibility to the various ways in which copyright and software are increasingly used as a threat to our Right to Repair.

In the context of the ongoing battery regulation trilogues, we reached out to MEPs to push for tough rules on battery removability and replaceability.

Austria launched a new repair bonus: a nationwide scheme enabling consumers to claim back half the cost of the repair of an old electrical device.

This week, the European Parliament voted in favor of making batteries more sustainable including making them removable and replaceable.

The road is still long until implementations of such measures and they could still be watered down in upcoming negotiations.