The new EU rules on the Right to Repair enter into force today!
They will support consumers in repairing their defective products instead of replacing them by:
🔸 obliging producers of certain products to offer timely repair service at a reasonable price
🔹 requiring these manufacturers to offer spare parts
🔸 extending the legal guarantee for the repaired product
🔹 creating a European repair platform to find suitable repairers.
Learn more 🔗 https://europa.eu/!NqPMj4
Also it says article is available only in English, yet whole article is in French... 👎
@EUCommission That's nice. But yet we're expected to renew our cars every few years. You are almost forced to buy an (very expensive) electric one if you live in big cities, taking aside the option to repair or even transform our cars into new machines with less contaminating fuels.
At least in Spain, if you have an old car, it likely will not pass the inspection. But changing critical parts of the engine for a more efficient car is an expensive bureaucratic hell.
Who forces you to buy a new car?
@CGdoppelpunkt @EUCommission Don't know in your place. in Spain, there is a Technical Vehicle Inspection (ITV) where every year it's more and more difficult for old cars to have the approval due to increasingly strict restrictions.
Without it, you can't drive on public roads, which makes your car unusable.
That, and cities' pollution restrictions.
All countries have this. In Germany it is colloquially called TÜV, in Bulgaria KAT... these are inspections for safety and technical fitness. The rules and standards remain mostly the same over the years, unless of course there is some new legislation e.g. regarding pollution levels. But I don't see in these countries obstacles to run old cars. In Spain you see them?
@CGdoppelpunkt @EUCommission Indeed. I actually can't go to my city center with my car to pick up my groceries at the market.
And at ITV, I never had a problem with safety. Breaks, engine, belts, lights and all those things are fine. But I always have some issues with pollution.
Again, it's not like I'm against environmental protection. But I do think that adapting old cars to be more efficient or even electrifying the engine should also have aids and not only the acquisition of new cars.
In Germany we have some restrictions for very old cars (with high pollution values) to enter some city centres of larger towns. But I believe this does not affect people who actually live there.
@EUCommission Logically 'right to repair' should apply to printer cartridges.
It is extremely wasteful (and expensive) to buy a brand new one each time, instead of re-filling the existing one with ink.
What legislation are you enacting against HP, who attempt to brick my printer if I attempt to re-fill my ink cartridge/buy a recycled one? Surely this is both wasteful, anti-competitive, and against right to repair legislation.. yet can find no info about it :)
@herissonrose @EUCommission You're right. Re-fill should fall under "reuse"...
EU should force companies like HP to come up with refillable ink cartridges..
@ciencia @EUCommission Damn! It was a nice thought :)
I'm wondering if I were to reach out to their people and emphasise the 'sentimental value' of the item, they might suddenly discover an untouched example, maybe sat in the warehouse. Guess I'll never know until I ask. Now I just need to research the formal address for their 'care & repair' centre in UK or EU, or whatever they might call it! (And for the avoidance of any doubt, I would happily pay to get my lovely watch back to perfect :) )
Excellent initiative indeed!
@EUCommission,
@postmarketOS can help fullfilling these goals :
@EUCommission no idea why the press release is in French, but
Les États membres ont maintenant jusqu’au 31 juillet 2026 pour transposer la directive dans leur droit national.
essentially, states can enforce it between now and July 2026? that’s… more than it takes to develop a whole product, I wonder if any countries will pass a law before the deadline
It is the usual procedure. Member countries need time for their legislation.
And all this could very well be part of lessons in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Civic Education and Sports. Simply use repair and health topics as practical sides of those subjects.
And all this could very well be part of lessons in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Civic Education and Sports. Simply use repair and health topics as practical sides of those subjects.
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