One should take EU's press releases about their legislation with a grain of salt. They are essentially ads (which I find a bit out of place for legislative bodies).<p>Right to repair activists are a bit less enthusiastic: "Considering the limited scope and ambition, we feel that the opportunity was missed to make this initiative into something that would actually merit the title ‘Right to repair directive’. As things stand, this piece of regulation could be more aptly described as an ‘annex to the existing ecodesign regulations.’ In essence, its main effect will be to somewhat increase the chances that the small number of products that already had to be repairable by law anyway, will actually end up being repaired."<p><a href="https://repair.eu/news/analysis-of-the-adopted-directive-on-common-rules-promoting-the-repair-of-goods/" rel="nofollow">https://repair.eu/news/analysis-of-the-adopted-directive-on-...</a>