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For comparison: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protection-law/directive-repair-goods_en https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consume
by oblio 2y ago
For comparison:
https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protection-law/directive-repair-goods_en https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protecti...
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240419IPR20590/right-to-repair-making-repair-easier-and-more-appealing-to-consumers https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240419IP...
https://repair.eu/ https://repair.eu/
It's not perfect (see the last link for details), but it's a great start. Also, if you have the time, read the actual directive. It's fairly readable as far as laws go.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32024L1799 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A... - see Article 5.
Also the FAQ:
https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/2d443b31-dc2a-4e54-a9ec-5fbb61c895e9_en?filename=2024_07_18_QA_Right2repair_FINAL.pdf https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/2d443b31-dc2a...
Also there's an entire directive for batteries:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1542/oj https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1542/oj
Article 11 is the one that's probably most interesting to people here, the reason why we are now starting to see easily removable batteries in mobile devices, again. Actually "easier to remove", they're definitely not as easy to remove as the Nokia 5110 batteries :-p