European Commission propose a ‘right to repair’ for mobiles and laptops

Crazy European Commission! The march into socialist central planning (to borrow from Joseph Schumpeter)! Ursula Von der Leyen is coming out as a communist commissar!

"More generally [the European Commission] wants to restrict single-use products, tackle “premature obsolescence” and ban the destruction of unsold durable goods — in order to make sustainable products the norm."

"To fulfil[l] this ambition, the EU needs to accelerate the transition towards a regenerative growth model that gives back to the planet more than
it takes, advance towards keeping its resource consumption within planetary boundaries, and therefore strive to reduce its consumption
footprint and double its circular material use rate in the coming decade."
Absolutely horrible! The EU Commission is obsessed/fanatic with climate/ environment religion!

"As part of this legislative initiative, and, where appropriate, through complementary legislative proposals, the Commission will consider establishing sustainability principles and other appropriate ways to regulate the following aspects:

• improving product durability, reusability, upgradability and reparability, addressing the presence

of hazardous chemicals in products, and increasing their energy and resource efficiency;

• increasing recycled content in products, while ensuring their performance and safety;

• enabling remanufacturing and high-quality recycling;

• reducing carbon and environmental footprints;

• restricting single-use and countering premature obsolescence

• introducing a ban on the destruction of unsold durable goods;

• incentivising product-as-a-service or other models where producers keep the ownership of the product or the responsibility for its performance throughout its lifecycle;

• mobilising the potential of digitalisation of product information, including solutions such as digital passports, tagging and watermarks;

• rewarding products based on their different sustainability performance, including by linking high performance levels to incentives"


European lawmakers propose a ‘right to repair’ for mobiles and laptops | TechCrunch: The European Commission has set out a plan to move towards a ‘right to repair’ for electronics devices, such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops. More generally it wants to restrict single-use products, tackle “premature obsolescence” and ban the destruction of unsold dura…


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