{"id":355766,"date":"2024-04-23T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T11:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/04\/23\/diritto-riparazione-ok-parlamento-ue\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T15:13:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T13:13:19","slug":"eu-parliament-gives-final-ok-to-historic-right-to-repair-in-defense-of-consumers-and-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/04\/23\/eu-parliament-gives-final-ok-to-historic-right-to-repair-in-defense-of-consumers-and-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament gives final OK to historic right to repair. In defense of consumers and the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The right to repair has become\u00a0a reality. With 584 votes in favor, three\u00a0against, and 14 abstentions, the plenary session of the European Parliament gave the green light to the right to<\/strong> repair products instead of replace them<\/strong>. A vast majority approved the outcome of trilogues<\/a> with the co-legislators of the EU Council to implement\u00a0the new directive before the end of the legislative term. “Our generation has had to face the greatest challenge, which is to halt climate change,” the rapporteur Ren\u00e9 Repasi<\/strong> (S&D) said\u00a0during last night’s (April 22) debate, stressing that “we must continue to meet this challenge, including with regard to products that last less and less<\/strong>, while we waste precious raw materials.”<\/p>\n

The new directive is The new directive focuses on\u00a0two pillars<\/strong>: promoting repair within the two-year legal warranty period with “easier and cheaper” options and protecting consumers even beyond the period of constraint on manufacturers and sellers “for any defect that may occur.” There will be an incentive to repair during and beyond the two-year legal warranty period: sellers will be required to offer free repair within the legal warranty period<\/strong>\u00a0– except when it is more expensive than replacement – while consumers should be given incentives not to choose replacement within the liability period. Levers for the right to repair include vouchers, national funds, and extending the one-year legal warranty for repaired products<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For household washing machines, dryers,\u00a0dishwashers, refrigeration appliances, electronic displays, welding equipment, vacuum cleaners, servers, and data storage,\u00a0manufacturers will be obliged to take action for five\u00a0to 10 years after the purchase, depending on the product type and repairability requirements<\/strong>: improving ease of disassembly, access to spare parts, and repair information. Cell phones, cordless phones, and tablets will be included in the list once their\u00a0repairability requirements for eco-design are adopted. There will be no change to the extended two-year legal warranty<\/strong> because there would be “even more” pressure on consumers to replace,\u00a0according to EU officials. In the first ‘protected’ time frame after the purchase, the right to repair would be made explicit with the obligation for sellers to always offer to fix\u00a0the defective or worn product<\/strong> unless repair is more expensive than replacement. Once the legal warranty expires (when sellers and manufacturers\u00a0no longer have commitments\u00a0to consumers), a range of tools would apply to temporally extend the right to repair<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"right<\/a>For products that are “technically repairable” according to\u00a0EU requirements, intervention will be required in case of both defect and wear and tear<\/strong>, ensuring that consumers always have someone to turn to. A European quality<\/strong> standard of durability and availability for repair services<\/strong> will also be developed, with a list to identify who is committed to a common minimum standard. Manufacturers will also have to inform consumers about products they must\u00a0repair themselves<\/strong> and an online matching platform to connect all levels of the refurbished product value chain, with the ability to search by location and quality standards. As a final lever of the right to repair, a European repair information form<\/strong> is planned to make conditions and prices transparent and to facilitate the comparison of offers.<\/p>\n

Repairs will have to be made within a “reasonable” time frame, and\u00a0manufacturers will have to be able to<\/strong> offer replacement devices on loan to consumers <\/strong>(or refurbished, in the case of products that cannot be repaired). Repairers and end-users will have access to all spare parts, information, and tools at a reasonable cost “throughout the lifetime of a product “<\/strong>to promote competition, reduce repair costs, and offer consumers more choices. Through national online platforms, consumers will be able to find not only local repairers and sellers of refurbished goods but also an overview of repair conditions for each device (such as maximum price and time required) to compare different offers.<\/p>\n

\"Ren\u00e9<\/a>
The rapporteur for the European Parliament on the Right to Repair Directive Ren\u00e9 Repasi (S&D)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Green Deal goals, fewer discarded products means less waste, fewer materials needed to produce new goods, and fewer greenhouse emissions in the production and sales processes. The new EU Right to Repair Directive should\u00a0result in\u00a018.5 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions, 1.8 million tons of resources, and 3 million tons of waste saved over 15 years<\/strong>.\u00a0At an economic level,\u00a0 the Directive should allow sellers and manufacturers to save\u00a015.6 billion euros over the next 15 years<\/strong>, a figure that for consumers should reach 176.5 billion euros over the same time frame, while growth and investment in the repair sector will increase by 4.8 billion euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MEPs overwhelmingly approved in plenary the text negotiated with the Council’s co-legislators, which includes a one-year extension of the legal warranty period for repaired products and access for repairers and end-users to all spare parts, information and tools “at a reasonable cost”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5647,"featured_media":255048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25710],"tags":[25755,27653,27652],"class_list":["post-355766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-net-tech-en","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-repair-en","tag-right-repair-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355766"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357075,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355766\/revisions\/357075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}