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The notable weak spot for this regulation (like some others) is that the member countries agreed to execute it NATIONALLY, so EU member states had to turn the d
by rickdeckard 9d ago
The notable weak spot for this regulation (like some others) is that the member countries agreed to execute it NATIONALLY, so EU member states had to turn the directive into national law and begin enforcement in 2026.
Now the EU is already quite challenged to stand up against US, China (and Korea) when it comes to enforcing such regulation and dealing with accusations from US/China/Korea of "sanctioning sales of their products"...
...so how would one expect the government of an individual country to fare in this, in times of Russia/Ukraine war, energy crisis, Strait-of-Hormuz-crisis...?
- mitxela 9d agoThat's how all EU regulations work, the EU is not sovereign, it's more like a localised UN
- rickdeckard 9d agoSorry, I phrased it incorrectly. - Regulations are binding acts for all member-countries. - Directives are goals the union should achieve, but actual execution including laws is up to the local countries. The handicap comes when important actions like this repairability target are defined as a DIRECTIVE, leaving it up to the local country (and all its lobbying influences) to set up the corresponding laws and governance. This inevitably leads to delays and fragmentation, tainting the result