On Monday, the so-called Right to Repair Act came into effect in the European Union.

In all 27 EU countries, manufacturers must provide conditions for the repair of equipment within ten years from the start of the sale.

It does not mean that it will be economically sane to repair them :-)

As design and quality of all products becoming worse each year.

The law obliges to supply equipment with detailed instructions for repair, and to produce components for replacing defective parts in a volume sufficient for repair.

Again, only for professionals who can be 100% controlled!

From electronics, televisions were the first to receive the right to repair.

Considering that around 90% of modern televisions have just horrible led backlight cooling and all 100% manufacturers will ask you to buy new LCD panel for 80-95% of new TV price it does not make any sense.

In addition to televisions, refrigerators, washing machines and hair dryers are protected by the right to repair for ten years in the EU.

Also, all this things are made so bad that all this repairs statements are just bad trick.

At the next stage of development of the law on the right to repair, smartphones, laptops and other small electronics are promised to be included in the list of products.

And it also won't change how they are designed and made. It will add new check marks for clerks and nothing more.

Every year for every European, on average, there is about 16 kg of electronic waste, of which no more than 40% is recycled.

Under recycled they also mean burned, pressed in useless stuff and so on. Around 3-10% actually ends up in any real product.

A Right to Repair Act can reduce waste and save money on new equipment.

Nope - exactly opposite, it'll make wrong illusion.

Contrary to popular belief, most Europeans do not have the extra money to replace household appliances after the warranty period ends.

And they are forced to.

Moreover, the failure of equipment shortly after the end of the warranty gave rise to a conspiracy theory about a conspiracy of manufacturers to release equipment with planned obsolescence.

It is not conspiracy, it is fact, they make things such way and tell engineers to do this, any simple criminal investigation will show it in one week time.

The Right to Repair Act should put an end to these rumors and encourage consumers and manufacturers to select and release products with a long lifespan.

Wow.

Also, the law forces manufacturers to change the design of goods in such a way that disassembly for disposal is carried out with simple tools without the use of special techniques.

Also, won't work.

Obviously, this should change the approach to frequent assembly using glue.

It won't.

Several European countries have already introduced or are introducing similar laws at the state level.

We need change of ruling class, not some nice sounding fake papers.

@gaman

Forcing manufacturers to offer 10 year warranty for their products would be a more sensible action instead of all this right-to-epair fuss.

No, it is very bad.

I am strong proponent for 30-100 days work warranty (depends on category, during this time if people just feel that something works wrong they can return item without any questions) and after this only paid repair, but with all parts, documents and such available via special universal worldwide shop, also manufacturer can change only 5-10% more than self cost for any part.

Also any sold item must have big sticker telling how many such items are being repaired (in percentage), and that is average cost of repairs per year. Manufacturers also must have progressive tax, so any new item will be taxed +20-45% additionally to manufacturer set price and tax drop to zero within 2-5 years. Such way manufacturer can't get around making constant small updates and calling it new model.

Such way you can't longer speculate and make up fake big warranties and you won't be able to offer horrible service.