{"id":149010,"date":"2024-02-05T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T09:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=149010"},"modified":"2024-02-05T10:40:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T09:40:13","slug":"council-and-parliament-strike-provisional-deal-on-the-right-to-repair-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/council-and-parliament-strike-provisional-deal-on-the-right-to-repair-directive\/","title":{"rendered":"Council and Parliament strike provisional deal on the right to repair directive"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional deal on the directive that promotes the repair of broken or defective goods, also known as the right-to-repair (or R2R) directive.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The legislation agreed today will make it easier for consumers to seek repair instead of replacement by making the access to repair services easier, faster, transparent, and more attractive.<\/p>\n

The provisional agreement applies to all products with repair requirements on EU law, sets an obligation to repair on manufacturers of goods with repair requirements, establishes a European information form providing consumers with key data on the repair service, and unifies the national repair information platforms into a European online platform.<\/p>\n

Priority: repair and reuse<\/span><\/h6>\n

Very often, when the vacuum cleaner, the dish washer, a coffee machine or any other product breaks or is defective, it is easier to dispose of it and buy a new one than have it repaired, especially when the legal guarantee has expired. The directive that co-legislators have agreed creates incentives for consumers to prolong the life of the product by having it repaired, which in turn will boost the repair sector, reduce waste and promote more sustainable business models.<\/p>\n

To achieve this, the directive proposes a new set of tools to make repair more attractive to consumers. These include:<\/p>\n