The EU’s Right to Repair - The Implications Explored

Introduction

This short webinar will help you to understand the impact of Right to Repair (‘R2R’) laws for EU businesses, including practical advice on compliance and potential sanctions.

The webinar will look at what steps need to be taken to manage the obligations under the R2R Directive and related EU laws under the EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan.

What You Will Learn

The webinar will cover the following:

• New obligations for manufacturers to repair products outside of the statutory warranty, at the request of consumers and for products that were not defective at delivery
• The incentivisation of repair instead of replacement under warranties
• The assumed level of ‘repairability’ as an additional characteristic alongside durability, functionality and compatibility of goods of the same type
• The proposed European Platform for Repair, to allow consumers to find repairers, sellers of refurbished goods, buyers of defective goods, and community-led repair initiatives
• The penalties for violation
• The interaction with Ecodesign implementing regulations that impose obligations on manufacturers of certain products in relation to product design and the availability of spare parts
• The interaction with the Directive on Empowering Consumers in the Green Transition, which aims at providing consumers with better information on durability and reparability of goods at the point of sale
• The impact of the EU Representative Actions Directive, which will allow consumers to enforce the R2R Directive through the EU’s new class actions mechanism

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Wednesday 17th September 2025

Alternatively, you can gain access to this webinar and 1,700+ others via the MBL Webinar Subscription. Please email webinarsubscription@mblseminars.com for more details.