While in the USA the so-called right to repair has been a debated topic for many years, which after all Apple also prompted the launch of self-repair program, under which it sells original parts for some of its products for home repairs to users, does not yet exist in the EU, which makes servicing older electronics in particular problematic. Once the warranty expires, many manufacturers give up on repairing them, saying that if the repair is more expensive than the purchase price of a new device, they simply do not undertake it. However, this is exactly what the EU wants to change through the European Parliament (EP).
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The European Commission recently submitted to the European Parliament a set of proposals that revolve around the repairability of devices in an attempt to eliminate electronic waste and at the same time allow users to use their old electronics even after they break, thanks to the availability of spare parts, or the provision of service. The whole idea of the EU is, very simply put, that manufacturers should change their attitude towards older electronics, specifically so that they are repairable and therefore sustainable for much longer than is the case now. In the future, this should mean the expansion of the service operations of service centers or the possibility of purchasing the necessary original parts and subsequently repairing the device in the comfort of your own home, thereby eliminating electrical waste. Although there are still negotiations with the EU member states before the European Parliament, with which universal "rules" for this entire regulation must be devised, however, as soon as this happens and the regulation "comes to life", we are in for a small repair revolution in the EU.
So the EU will determine the ND prices, or what will it be?
They are talking about everything, it will be fatal for the EU, no matter what.
Just Apple supplies spare parts for its products for quite a long time, usually just before the given product is completely obsolete.
It is not a phone made for a person to tinker with at home (except for a few individuals). Rather, it should be possible for larger services (even non-branded ones) to have access, for example, to original batteries. And not as she tries to tell us THAT IT IS THE ORIGINAL (I purposely edited the word, because that's how her originals behave). But that's probably a very hard nut to crack...
Another piece of nonsense from the EU workshop... He wants "green energy" all the time, but somehow he forgets one basic thing... old and worn out electronics "eat" significantly more from our electrical sockets... instead of a fundamental motivation to recycle and especially to buy the newest equipment with the lowest possible with our consumption, we will support "repair at home" and the subsequent resale of such a device nicely "in the black" under our hands... a really great idea...