René Repasi @repasi@respublicae.eu

8/ What's missing? Nothing about an extended minimum guarantee period for repaired products (or products in general); nothing about repair and software updates (and the issue of downgrading products by software updates); nothing about financial support for the cost of repair.

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7/ Finally, the directive shall be of maximum harmonisation. What does this mean for all measures incentivising repair in Member States such as the Austrian repair vouchers? Big gap in the proposal: costs are determined by producers and consumers have to take it or leave it.

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6/ Good for legal protection: the right to repair directive will be added to the Representative Actions Directive (2020/1828) so that consumer organisations can enfore the obligation to repair.

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5/ Important: the remedies provision in Art. 13 of the Sale of Goods Directive (2019/771) will be modified (Art. 12): repair becomes the compulsory remedy 'where the costs for replacement are equal to or greater than the cost of repair'. What is the appropriate cost of repair?

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4/ The R2R directive wants to create national online platforms for repair and refurbishment services.

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3/ On #repairability: there is only a generic obligation for Member States to come up with some ideas how producers should inform consumers about the obligation to repair (but not the actual repairability of a product).

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2/ There is the European Repair Information Form (Art. 4) to be issued by a repairer before a consumer enters into a contract for repair services. Nice to have. But more relevant: Information by the producer on the repairability! Plus: The consumer has to pay for the form? C'mon.

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1b/ Obligation to repair is limited to products mentioned in Annex II, which can be extended by the European Commission by means of a delegated act (hello, my old friend!). Proper dynamisation of the scope of the obligation to repair is crucial.

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1a/ Core to the proposal is the obligation to repair in Article 5. Good: irrespective of the location of the producer, a good must be repaired by somebody if requested by the consumer. Bad: Possibility to refuse the request by reference to the blurry concept of 'impossibility'.

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The @EU_Commission has presented its proposal for a Right to Repair (#RightToRepair) (👉 https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protection-law/consumer-contract-law/rules-promoting-repair-goods_en). Good to finally have a proposal, but it's underambitious for achieving its goal. Let's have a closer look: a🧵

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RT @nicolasfink_mdl: Online-Diskussion mit dem SPD-#Europaabgeordneten René Repasi. Thema der Online Diskussion ist die #Aussenbeziehungen der #EuropäischenUnion im Spannungsfeld zwischen Wirtschaftsinteressen u einer wertegeleiteten Handelspolitik.
https://www.facebook.com/nicolas.fink.mdl/

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@kimvsparrentak, @ILGAEurope, @MarcAngel_lu, @SophieintVeld, @katarinabarley, @ProfKochenov, @ProfPech, @KimLaneLaw

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The Legal Affairs Committee (@EP_Legal) of the @europarl_en has just decided to follow my recommendation as Standing Rapporteur for disputes to intervene at the CJEU in case C-769/22 against the Hungarian anti-#LGBTIQ+ law (aka child protection law) in support of the Commission.

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RT @ecb: Statement by ECB President Christine Lagarde https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2023/html/ecb.pr230319~744758829c.en.html

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@ioanniskamp @erasmusuni Thank you!

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@ChristianLange_ Danke vielmals!

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@Going_Loopy @schnellenbachj Ja, das stimmt. Steht aber auch in einem Tarifvertrag und nicht in einem Gesetz.

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@a_jongerius @erasmusuni @kimvsparrentak @pvdaeuropa @ErasmusESL @ArcuriAa @federicavioli @MarijnvdSluis @M_Markakis @SPDEuropa @profkainer Hartelijk dank dat je er was. Ik heb het heel erg op prijs gesteld.

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@ArribaSellier @erasmusuni @kimvsparrentak @a_jongerius @pvdaeuropa @ErasmusESL @ArcuriAa @federicavioli @MarijnvdSluis @M_Markakis @SPDEuropa @profkainer Thanks a lot!

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