by stefanie | May 29, 2024 | World Focus
The new regulation mandates sustainable design across products, marking a fundamental shift in EU environmental policy. The European Union Council has given its final approval to the landmark ecodesign regulation. This new law aims to significantly broaden the scope...
by stefanie | Sep 6, 2023 | World Focus
The European Commission takes a major step to lower the environmental impact of smartphones and tablets. The new rules will decrease costs for consumers, mitigate carbon emissions and reduce the use of raw materials used in these devices. From June 2025, in line with...
by stefanie | Jun 22, 2023 | World Focus
New rules to make products last longer and be easier to repair, upgrade, recycle and a ban on the destruction of unsold textiles and electronic appliances and will prioritise ecodesign requirements for e.g. steel, textiles, furniture, tyres, chemicals. Recently, the...
by stefanie | Nov 30, 2022 | World Focus
A week is a long time in politics, and you may well have missed some subtle changes in EU politics that might impact the office print sector. Last week (22 November), the German and French Economy Ministers Robert Habeck and Bruno Le Maire said they were “firmly...
by stefanie | Jul 22, 2022 | World Focus
The European Union’s flagship Regulation on Ecodesign for Sustainable Products will see the EU Green Procurement Policy become mandatory. The European Union’s (EU) Regulation on Ecodesign for Sustainable Products (ESPR) will include a requirement for the EU Green...
