INTRODUCTION
The European Union is actively pursuing sustainable consumption, one aspect of which is the circular economy. This aims to prolong the lifespan of the goods available on the market. Therefore, the regulation of the right to repair became of interest to the European Commission. The assumption is that environmental costs resulting from repair are smaller than those resulting from producing and introducing new goods to the market. This statement seems to be an oversimplification. There are types of goods whose maintenance on the market has a much more detrimental influence on the environment than a replacement for new, eco-friendly ones. However, this paper does not aim to analyse once again the advantages and disadvantages of a sometimes blind enforcement of the right to repair. It will focus on one legal aspect that has appeared in several approaches presented in scholarship and can be found in the recently adopted Directive (EU) 2024/1799 (R2R Directive). This aspect is the introduction of the producers’ obligation to perform a repair …
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Maciej Bujalski, On Producers’ Obligation to Repair Defective Goods: Direct Producers’ Liability vs Self-Standing Obligation under R2R Directive, Journal of European Consumer and Market Law, volume 13, issue 4, pp 178-184 (2024).
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