In its public consultation on the review of the Market Surveillance Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, the European Commission suggests the possibility of “establishing an EU Market Surveillance Authority” to improve enforcement against products that do not comply with EU legislation regulating the environmental and safety requirements of products (“product legislation”).
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Anna Sophia Oberschelp de Meneses
Anna Sophia Oberschelp de Meneses advises on EU data protection, cybersecurity, and consumer law. Her practice covers the full range of Europe's digital regulatory framework, including GDPR, ePrivacy, NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act, the AI Act, the Digital Services Act, the Data Act, the European Health Data Space, and EU consumer protection law, including product safety, product liability, and consumer rights legislation. She focuses on the operational side of compliance — helping clients design policies and processes, draft documentation, and build the internal frameworks needed to meet regulatory requirements in practice.
She also advises on contentious matters, drawing on experience managing investigations before national regulators and proceedings before national courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union. She works closely with Covington's disputes teams on matters at the intersection of regulatory compliance and litigation.
The EU Adopts Right to Repair Directive
The European Union has just adopted the Right to Repair Directive (“R2RD”). Once it enters into force, the R2RD will require manufacturers of many types of consumer goods to provide repairs beyond the liability period, among other requirements. This blog post follows up on our previous blog post that discussed the different positions of the European Parliament and Council on the legislative proposal for the R2RD.
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The European Parliament and Council are in negotiations to finalize the adoption of a proposal for a new Directive on the Right to Repair. The proposed Directive aims to meet the product sustainability and circularity objectives by improving product durability, reusability, upgradeability, and repairability as outlined in the European Commission’s Circular Economy Action Plan 2020, a key component of the European Green Deal.*
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