The Council of the EU gave its final approval to the Right-to-Repair Directive on 30 May 2024. Agnieszka Jabłonowska shares her insights on the Directive, exploring its potential impact on encouraging repair over replacement, strengthening consumer rights, and supporting small repair businesses.
The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation aims to make sustainable products the norm in the EU. In this blog post, Anna D’Agostino answers a few questions about the ESPR and shares some thoughts on the opportunities it presents for making consumption practices more sustainable
On 25 April 2024, Advocate General Emiliou delivered his long-awaited opinion on the question of whether the average consumer should be seen as a homo economicus or as an individual with bounded rationality.
Despite the amendments made to the proposal for the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) during the adoption process, "Any agreement is definitely better than no agreement because the changes that it brings are major", says Prof. Branda Katan.
The transition towards a sustainable economy is a pivotal aim for the EU, taking into account, inter alia, the interests of consumers in sustainable production and consumption. An important step in this direction was taken on 15 March 2024 with the adoption of the CS3D by the Council of the European Union.
We are very excited to announce our second research seminar of the year! Join us on 1 March for a meeting with prof. Martijn Hesselink (European University Institute, Florence) to discuss his latest work on ethical consumption and social justice.
On 8 February, the Consumer ID project will organise a research seminar with prof. dr. Marija Bartl (UvA). The seminar will focus on prof. Bartl's upcoming book, which is (provisionally) entitled: “Sustainable and shared: Instituting a new imaginary of prosperity in the EU”.
Prosumers, once declared professionals, are caught between a rock and a hard place. Can contract law offer some refuge? It will be exciting to see Laura’s PhD project about the prosumer puzzle take shape over the coming years.
Platformisation of the economy has breathed new life into the long-standing tradition of prosumption. But who is the prosumer and why online prosumption of goods deserves a closer look?
