EU Right to Repair Directive 2024/1799
Directive (EU) 2024/1799 became applicable across the EU on 31 July 2026. Mobile phones, tablets and electronic displays are directly in scope, alongside major appliances. But transposition into national law has been uneven — only a handful of member states had formally notified complete transposition by the deadline, so the compliance text a manufacturer actually answers to is one of 27 different national laws, not one harmonised EU text.
Last updated 15 August 2026
The Directive itself required member states to transpose its rules into national law and apply them from 31 July 2026. That EU-wide application date has now passed. What hasn't caught up is the transposition: at the time of writing only a handful of member states had formally notified the European Commission that transposition was complete, with several others still working through draft legislation. For a manufacturer selling into multiple EU markets, that means the obligations are live in principle, but the specific enforceable text differs by country, and some of those texts are still moving.
Annex II of the Directive lists the covered product categories directly: household washing machines and washer-dryers, dishwashers, tumble dryers, refrigerating appliances, electronic displays, welding equipment, vacuum cleaners, servers and data storage products, mobile phones, cordless phones and slate tablets, plus goods incorporating batteries for light means of transport such as e-bikes and e-scooters. That puts most of our consumer-electronics ICP segment directly in scope — this isn't an appliance-only rule that electronics happen to graze.
Source: Directive (EU) 2024/1799, EUR-Lex; Fieldfisher.
Manufacturers must keep spare parts available for a defined period after the last unit of a product is sold — the exact duration is set by the Ecodesign regulation that applies to each product category, not a single flat figure — and must price parts and tools so they don't deter repair. Contractual clauses, hardware or software techniques that impede repair with original, second-hand, compatible or 3D-printed spare parts are banned unless justified by legitimate, objective factors. And where a repair is carried out during the legal guarantee period, the manufacturer must extend the liability period by 12 months on the repaired item — a real cost that has to be modelled, not a formality.
Source: Regulatory Decoded; Directive (EU) 2024/1799, EUR-Lex.
Yes. Directive (EU) 2024/1799 became applicable across the EU on 31 July 2026. But transposition into national law has been uneven — as of late July 2026 only a handful of member states had formally notified the European Commission of complete transposition, with several others still working through draft legislation. The EU-wide obligation is live; the specific national compliance text a manufacturer answers to depends on which of the 27 transpositions is in force in each market.
Yes, directly. Annex II of the Directive covers mobile phones, cordless phones and slate tablets, plus electronic displays, alongside household appliances like washing machines, dishwashers and refrigerating appliances, and goods incorporating batteries for light means of transport such as e-bikes and e-scooters.
Manufacturers must keep spare parts available for a defined period after the last unit of a product is sold, with the exact duration set by the applicable Ecodesign regulation for that product category, at a reasonable price that doesn't deter repair. Manufacturers must not use contractual clauses, hardware or software techniques to impede repair with original, second-hand, compatible, or 3D-printed spare parts, unless justified by legitimate and objective factors.
When a repair is carried out during the legal guarantee period to restore a product's conformity, the manufacturer must extend the liability period by 12 months for the repaired item. Consumers must also be able to request repair of Annex II products after the standard warranty has expired, at a reasonable price and within a reasonable time.
The risk here isn't the EU-level text, it's the 27-way fragmentation underneath it — knowing which national transposition is actually in force where you sell, whether your spare-parts availability period and pricing meet the applicable Ecodesign duration for your product category, and whether any existing repair lock (software pairing, proprietary fasteners, diagnostic gating) needs a documented legitimate-factors justification or has to come out. We scope the gap market by market.
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