Both the EU Parliament and the Council welcome the idea of such a „right to repair“. However, it was unclear how this was to be designed in concrete terms for a long time. The EU Commission’s plans are now based, on the one hand, on consumers’ options and, on the other, on the products themselves to increase their resource efficiency. As convincing as a right to repair may sound at first, it is clear that the switch from a „consumption economy“ to a „repair economy“ is associated with a great many unanswered questions and uncertain effects.