The EU Commission launched today a very limited but essential text of the EU Right to Repair proposal. We welcome the step forward, but note the EU’s lack of ambition to make repairability an affordable reality.
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?
