Resumen de The new ecodesign regulations: Towards more circular products?

Beltrán Puentes Cociña

• English

  The circular economy strategy of the European Union has undertaken one of its objectives, which is the need to reform ecodesign legislation, and has therefore approved several regulations for specific product categories that, for the first time, regulate material efficiency aspects such as product durability and repairability. The Commission's proposal for a new ecodesign framework regulation seeks to extend the scope of the current directive and generalize the use of durability and repairability requirements. This paper explores what role the principles of the circular economy should play for product eco-design and how sufficient the latest regulatory reforms have been in promoting products that are more circular. Important steps have been taken, such as the obligation to provide spare parts for several products, but there are still some weaknesses regarding the scope of application, the lack of legislative development and the role of the industry in the creation of the standards.

• galego

  A estratexia de economía circular da Unión Europea asumiu entre os seus obxectivos principais a necesidade de reformar a lexislación de deseño ecolóxico e, en consecuencia, aprobou varios regulamentos para categorías específicas de produtos que regulan por primeira vez aspectos de eficiencia material, como a durabilidade ou a reparabilidade. A proposta do novo regulamento marco de deseño ecolóxico presentada pola Comisión busca ampliar o ámbito de aplicación da vixente directiva e xeneralizar o uso dos requisitos de durabilidade ou reparabilidade. Neste traballo estúdase que papel deben desempeñar os principios da economía circular no deseño ecolóxico dos produtos e en que medida as últimas reformas normativas son suficientes para promover produtos máis circulares. Aínda que se deron pasos importantes, como a obriga de ofrecer pezas de recambio para varios produtos, aínda se advirten algunhas carencias relativas ao ámbito de aplicación, ao deficiente desenvolvemento normativo ou ao rol da industria na elaboración das normas.