Right to Repair: MEPs criticize proposal

The Internal Market Committee in the European Parliament hopes to take the lead on the Right to Repair. In a first exchange with Justice Commissioner Reynders, MEPs criticized above all the lack of solutions for repair costs and warranty – and the long delay of the Commission proposal.

„The best thing about the proposal is that it now exists,“ says René Repasi on the phone, shortly after the publication of the Commission’s draft for a Right to Repair. The SPD MEP is still visibly upset by the negative assessment of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB), which caused a significant delay. In an exchange in the Internal Market Committee (IMCO) with Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders a few days later, Repasi spoke of an „unnecessary holding pattern of half a year“ and urged that the processing and negotiations be completed before the end of this legislative term.

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