Joint position on the Sustainable Consumption of Goods Initiative

04 Apr 2022

The Sustainable Consumption of Goods Initiative (SCGI) covers the development of a European Commission proposal to amend the Sales of Goods Directive (EU) 2019/771 with right-to-repair requirements. The undersigned associations welcome the feedback opportunity for this initiative.

Nonetheless, the undersigned associations would like to offer recommendations, further explained in this paper, in order to optimise the efficiency of the SCGI in relation to other EU policies.

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