REPper: How Europe can deliver on its repair promise

About this Webinar

This edition of Start Talking will explore what it takes to build a repair culture that can save consumers money and cut environmental costs.

With an EU Directive on common rules to promote the repair of goods being applied nationally this summer, it’s the right time to show what needs to happen to implement lasting changes to Europe’s repair system according to focus groups discussions held in several REPper project Mediterranean countries.

Repair is widely valued, but it is often a hard option to put into practice, and most consumers replace or recycle their broken products. Making it the easy, economic and obvious choice will drive a repair market that works for everyone.

On 19th March from 10:30 - 12:00 CET, we’ll be joined by speakers from industry, the European Commission, consumer organisations, standards makers, community repair centres and e-waste experts to explore the mix of obstacles to repair and the policy and regulation that will help overcome them.

More about the REPper project:
REPper (short for ‘Repair Perspective’) aims to develop the culture of repair, strengthening repair and reuse ecosystems with a focus on supply, skills and demand. The project operates across Mediterranean countries, with eight partners from six EU Member States (France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain) and two European non-EU countries (Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina). Euroconsumers members OCU, Altroconsumo and DECOPROteste are key partners in the project: https://repper.interreg-euro-med.eu/