by stefanie | Mar 30, 2022 | World Focus
Time to end the ‘take, make, break, and throw away” model as the European Commission publishes its Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2022-2024 and rejects the OEMs Voluntary Agreement for imaging. The working plan confirmed the Commissions assessment that...
by stefanie | Mar 30, 2022 | Around the Industry
The European Commission is due to publish its Sustainable Products Initiative today as part of the Circular Economy Action Plan to make products placed on the EU market more sustainable, durable, reusable, repairable, recyclable, energy efficient and reduce the use of...
by stefanie | Jul 27, 2021 | World Focus
The French based Halt Obsolescence Programme (HOP) is the latest organisation to speak out about the European Voluntary Agreement (VA), who say that the agreement is not in line with the European circular economy action plan. The original VA, signed in 2011 between...
by stefanie | May 26, 2021 | World Focus
Protesters take to the streets of Brussels to support the right to repair and the failure of the voluntary agreement. Protesters take to the streets of Brussels, well the Schuman roundabout, at the centre of the EU district, to support the right to repair. The...
by stefanie | Jan 15, 2021 | World Focus
NGOs firmly reject the proposed update to the voluntary agreement (VA) on imaging equipment and for an immediate regulatory measure. In a letter to the EU Commission, ECOS, a Brussels based international network of environmental NGOs, rejects the latest version of the...
