A critical assessment of the European Directive proposal on the common rules promoting the repair of goods

The European Commission has recently approved a Directive proposal to promote repair. After review by theEuropean Parliament and Council, we can assess the policy measures in light of their intended objective. Our analysis shows that the Directive proposal fails to address the most importan barriers...

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Autores: López-Bermúdez, Francisco, Vence Deza, Xavier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositorio:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Repair
Repairability
Circular economy
European commission
European directive
53 Ciencias económicas
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spelling A critical assessment of the European Directive proposal on the common rules promoting the repair of goodsLópez-Bermúdez, FranciscoVence Deza, XavierRepairRepairabilityCircular economyEuropean commissionEuropean directive53 Ciencias económicasThe European Commission has recently approved a Directive proposal to promote repair. After review by theEuropean Parliament and Council, we can assess the policy measures in light of their intended objective. Our analysis shows that the Directive proposal fails to address the most importan barriers to repair – plannedobsolescence, availability of repair instructions and spare parts, economic incentives – while potentiallygenerating greater administrative burdens for independent repairers. The Directive consists mainly of information tools and proposes a closed, narrow version of the Right to Repair (R2R) that transfers the power over an expanding repair market to the manufacturers.ElsevierUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Economía Aplicada20252025-01-0120252025-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10347/40919reponame:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostelainstname:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)InglésengAgencia Estatal de Investigación http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023 PID2022-141162NB-I00 NUEVAS ESTRATEGIAS Y CAMBIOS EN LOS PATRONES ESPACIALES DE INDUSTRIALIZACION Y REGIONALIZACION DE LAS CADENAS GLOBALES DE VALOR: EL PAPEL DE LAS POLITICAS DE DESCARBONIZACIONopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/409192026-06-15T12:47:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A critical assessment of the European Directive proposal on the common rules promoting the repair of goods
title A critical assessment of the European Directive proposal on the common rules promoting the repair of goods
spellingShingle A critical assessment of the European Directive proposal on the common rules promoting the repair of goods
López-Bermúdez, Francisco
Repair
Repairability
Circular economy
European commission
European directive
53 Ciencias económicas
title_short A critical assessment of the European Directive proposal on the common rules promoting the repair of goods
title_full A critical assessment of the European Directive proposal on the common rules promoting the repair of goods
title_fullStr A critical assessment of the European Directive proposal on the common rules promoting the repair of goods
title_full_unstemmed A critical assessment of the European Directive proposal on the common rules promoting the repair of goods
title_sort A critical assessment of the European Directive proposal on the common rules promoting the repair of goods
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv López-Bermúdez, Francisco
Vence Deza, Xavier
author López-Bermúdez, Francisco
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Vence Deza, Xavier
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Repair
Repairability
Circular economy
European commission
European directive
53 Ciencias económicas
topic Repair
Repairability
Circular economy
European commission
European directive
53 Ciencias económicas
description The European Commission has recently approved a Directive proposal to promote repair. After review by theEuropean Parliament and Council, we can assess the policy measures in light of their intended objective. Our analysis shows that the Directive proposal fails to address the most importan barriers to repair – plannedobsolescence, availability of repair instructions and spare parts, economic incentives – while potentiallygenerating greater administrative burdens for independent repairers. The Directive consists mainly of information tools and proposes a closed, narrow version of the Right to Repair (R2R) that transfers the power over an expanding repair market to the manufacturers.
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