The European Parliament, meeting in Strasbourg on Tuesday 21 November, came out very clearly in favour of future common rules to promote an effective and attractive right to repair defective products in the EU, including after the two-year legal guarantee.
By 590 votes to 15, with 15 abstentions, it adopted the report by René Repasi (S&D, German) as amended by Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) (see EUROPE B13279A12). In doing so, it set out its...