Right to Repair Europe views on the EU Consumer Agenda 2025-2030

Publication date: August 2025
Resource added: 31 August 2025

The European Union’s efforts to transition to a circular economy are undermined by business practices that not only reduce the durability of products but also encourage overconsumption and waste. While repairing broken devices saves resources and cuts environmental impacts, repairing is often more expensive than replacing. The Right to Repair Directive was a step in the right direction, but the ambition of its measures and its scope remains limited to only a few product groups.

This is why the Consumer Agenda must focus on sustainable consumption and prioritise:
● Promoting an open repair market and stronger protection against early obsolescence practices. Introducing binding information requirements on the price of spare parts, banning all forms of early obsolescence and fully implementing the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), expanding the Right to Repair to more product groups (alongside a ban on the destruction of any unsold goods).
● Banning unsustainable business practices that encourage overconsumption of new products, such as marketing-driven obsolescence, dark patterns and addictive designs.
● Promoting information and consumer awareness on the environmental impact of products and of overconsumption.
● Reviewing the potential of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes across categories in order to create stronger financial disincentives against overconsumption and wasteful business models.