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The Eu Right To Repair
A PRACTICAL MANUAL: Repair Duties and Consumer Rights under Directive (EU) 2024/1799
Verlag:
Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35159415
EAN: 9798188142612
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Zustellung: Fr, 06.11.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 56.50
Beschreibung
The EU Right to Repair: A Practical Manual offers an authoritative guide to Directive (EU) 2024/1799 on common rules promoting the repair of goods. The book translates a complex legal framework into practical guidance for manufacturers, sellers, importers, distributors, authorised representatives, repairers, compliance teams, legal advisers, consumer organisations and public authorities. Directive (EU) 2024/1799 changes how businesses manage defective consumer goods across the European Union. It strengthens repair within the legal guarantee, creates a manufacturer-facing repair duty for relevant defects outside seller liability and supports a more competitive European repair market. National measures apply from 31 July 2026, making early implementation essential for organisations that design, supply, sell or repair goods within scope. The manual explains the crucial distinction between free repair under the legal guarantee and potentially chargeable repair under Article 5. Readers learn how to identify the responsible economic operator, assess product coverage under Annex II, interpret product-specific Union repairability requirements and evaluate technical or legal impossibility. Detailed analysis clarifies the roles of authorised representatives, importers and distributors when a manufacturer lacks an establishment within the Union. Product coverage receives particular attention. Annex II links the repair duty to Union ecodesign and repairability legislation, creating a dynamic framework that develops as European institutions add product categories. The book explains how manufacturers and advisers should monitor delegated acts, component lists, spare-part periods and technical access conditions. Practical chapters examine reasonable repair prices, completion times, diagnostic charges, quotations and the thirty-day validity period of the European Repair Information Form. Readers also gain a structured explanation of spare-part pricing, repair tools, indicative prices, technical documentation, software access and restrictions that interfere with independent repair. The legal-guarantee analysis covers repair and replacement, the seller's information duties and the twelve-month extension of the liability period after a consumer chooses repair. Further discussion addresses temporary replacement goods, refurbished permanent replacements and the consumer's freedom to select an independent repairer. The manual also examines firmware, parts pairing, remote authentication, locked diagnostics and software barriers, together with legitimate safety, cybersecurity and intellectual property requirements. Market infrastructure forms another central theme. The book analyses the European online platform for repair, national sections, provider registration, search functions, accessibility and repair quality standards. It also explains national repair-promotion measures, consumer information programmes and support for small repair businesses. Compliance professionals receive actionable guidance on entity mapping, request classification, pricing evidence, refusal decisions, service-network contracts, record-keeping, internal controls and implementation planning. The enforcement chapters examine competent authorities, representative actions, cross-border consumer protection, penalties and regulatory cooperation. The EU Right to Repair combines legislative commentary with applied analysis. It connects consumer rights with engineering decisions, after-sales operations, supply-chain governance, digital product architecture and circular-economy strategy. Clear explanations help readers understand what the Directive requires, which limitations apply and how organisations can convert legal duties into reliable processes.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Alessio Faccia
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 310