The new ESPR regulation has the potential to cover nearly all product groups and to tackle environmental impacts from manufacturing to end-of-life. However to which extent it will concretely address reparability, durability, and premature obsolescence is still to be determined in secondary legislation.
After years of intense campaigning by right to repair advocates, EU lawmakers have finally agreed upon new repair rules. Read our full analysis of these new rules!
The Right to Repair Europe coalition is looking for a trainee that may help the coordinator of the coalition with community management, communication, policy, and other day-to-day challenges of any international organisation! The position will be 60% with Right to Repair Europe (3 days per week) and 40% with ECOS (2 days per week). About …
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Blog post by Katrin Meyer (Runder Tisch Reparatur), and Magdolna Molnár (BTU Cottbus) Everyone is talking about the repair vouchers “Saving resources should pay off!” Last year over 71,000 people, together with the Runder Tisch Reparatur, the Inkota Network, and many other supporting organizations, demanded a repair voucher from the German federal government. In order …
This article was written by Rosalie Heens from Repair&Share, with contributions from Thomas Opsomer and Flavie Vonderscher. New on the menu: Repair Index Belgian Style In January Belgium adopted a new law that obliges manufacturers and retailers to provide a repairability index for (certain) household appliances, from 2026. With this initiative, Belgium becomes the second …
