Focus on the new transparency obligations of the Eco-design Regulation
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 of 13 June 2024 lays down new transparency requirements for economic operators concerning the management of unsold items and the provision of a digital passport.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 of 13 June 2024 establishes a framework for setting ecodesign requirements for sustainable products. This Regulation amends Directive (EU) 2020/1828 and Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, and is also intended to repeal the Eco-design Directive 2009/125/EC, the scope of which was limited to energy-related products.
Unlike this Directive, the new Regulation applies to “any physical goods that are placed on the market or put into service, including components or intermediate products” in accordance with its Article 1. These Regulations provide for exclusions such as foodstuffs, medicines or vehicles.
The new Regulation has considerably evolved, in its Article 5 and Annex I, the sustainability and ecodesign criteria by setting new criteria, such as durability, repairability of products, ease of improvement or reuse, the share of recycled content or the fight against planned obsolescence. This new Regulation also provides for the introduction of new transparency obligations relating to the provision of a digital passport and the management of unsold goods at the expense of economic operators.
Indeed, Articles 9 to 12 of the Regulation provide for the introduction of a new obligation to provide a digital passport, which is one of the flagship measures of the Regulation. The provision of a digital passport will only be mandatory for categories of products that have been expressly covered by a delegated act (Article 9.1).
Its objective is to allow consumers to have access to easily accessible information allowing them to make informed choices. The latter must also be able to facilitate the verification of the conformity of the products by the control authorities as well as guarantee the traceability of the products. In particular,
this delegated act must specify the data to be included, the data carriers to be used and the procedures for making them available, the actors who must be able to access them, the detailed procedures for entering or updating the data and the period during which they must remain available.
Annex III of the Regulation specifies the type of data to be included, including but not limited to:
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product performance
- information with respect to one or more of the product parameters listed in Annex I, including a Repairability Index, Sustainability Index, Carbon Footprint or Environmental Footprint,
Information
- for treatment facilities on disassembly, reuse, repackaging, recycling or disposal of the product at the end of its life,
- Information requirements allow substances of concern to be traced throughout the life cycle of the products concerned.
With regard to the obligation of transparency relating to the management of unsold products, the Regulation lays down a general principle of prevention of destruction (Article 23) as well as an annual reporting obligation on discarded products (Article 24). The obligation to communicate on the website, referred to in Article 24 and to apply from 19 July 2030 to economic operators who discard or have discarded products, must relate to:
- The number and weight of unsold products broken down by product type or category,
- The reason for product disposal,
- The proportion of the transfer of discarded products for re-use, repackaging, remanufacturing, recycling or other recovery operation,
- Measures to prevent the destruction of unsold consumer products.
To enable the implementation of this obligation, the European Commission will adopt implementing acts specifying the modalities and format of publications as well as product categories (Article 24 (3)). The implementing acts shall be adopted no later than 19 July 2025.
Finally, it is specified that this obligation will not apply to micro and small businesses that benefit from an exclusion.
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