The EU Commission has postponed the presentation of measures to promote repair and reuse including a "right to repair" for consumers which was tentatively scheduled for the end of November. The Commission's Communication on its work programme lists the right to repair among the topics on which it intends to present initiatives "in the coming months". However, it is not included in the annex with the detailed list of projects for 2023, and it was removed from the provisional agenda for the weekly meetings of the EU Commission covering the period until the end of this year.
The MEP Anna Cavazzini (Green Party) reported last week that the Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB), an independent body within the Commission whose tasks include improving the quality of impact assessments, came to a negative conclusion in its evaluation of the draft. Ms Cavazzini and the MEP René Repasi (Social Democrats) have now filed a request for access to the body's decision in order to "find out to which extent the formation of the opinion of the RSB was influenced by interest groups"....
