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Right to Repair Directive compliance tool

Directive (EU) 2024/1799 · European Union · Binding instrument

Name anyone on your staff. The system makes them your compliance person.

A member of your own staff, with no compliance background, reads the training module, answers the interview, and finishes with your Right to Repair Directive documentation cited article by article. The knowledge stays in the business.

Every account level runs inside a dedicated Claude account. Anyone can try a toolkit in their own Claude account; compliance work runs in a dedicated one. The Claude Max plan is £90 a month, paid to Anthropic, and is not included in any level.

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Right to Repair Directive is Directive (EU) 2024/1799, a binding instrument in the European Union. Repair obligations on the manufacturer of goods for which Union law sets repairability requirements, such as white goods, displays and mobile phones.

The free assessment screens for Right to Repair Directive when a business places physical products on the market, or manufactures goods, or imports goods. The Directive's repair duty falls on the manufacturer of goods for which Union law sets repairability requirements, such as white goods, displays and mobile phones.

Sectors this instrument reaches: manufacturers of household appliances, displays and mobile devices.

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• Your exact position under Right to Repair Directive: what is in place, what is missing, and what to do about each gap.
• Documentation with article citations, ready for auditors, insurers, customers and public buyers.
• A trained person inside the business who understands what the regulation requires, and stays.
• A dated record of every section completed, with the reports themselves staying in your own Claude account. The toolkit is carried by an account level, see the plans.
• All of it completed in-house, at your own pace, without booking a single meeting.

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Does Right to Repair Directive apply to my business?

The Directive applies to you if you are a manufacturer of goods for which Union law sets repairability requirements, or a repairer providing repair services in the course of your trade, business, craft or profession (Article 2(2)). It also reaches your authorised representative, importer or distributor where you are established outside the Union (Article 5(3)).

Who does Right to Repair Directive apply to?

It applies to consumers, to repairers including manufacturers and sellers that repair, to manufacturers established inside or outside the Union, and to authorised representatives, importers and distributors (Article 2). Member States are addressed for transposition and enforcement duties.

Does Right to Repair Directive apply to a small business?

The Directive sets no size threshold and no small business exemption for the Article 4, 5 and 6 duties. It notes that legal fragmentation particularly affects small and medium-sized enterprises, and the Commission must adopt guidelines to support in particular micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (Article 10).

When does Right to Repair Directive apply from, and what are the deadlines?

Member States had to bring the transposing measures into force and apply them from 31 July 2026 (Article 22(1)), and had to notify penalty rules by the same date (Article 15). A repairer that provides the European Repair Information Form may not alter the quoted conditions for 30 calendar days (Article 4(5)).

What does Right to Repair Directive require me to do?

You must repair goods carrying Annex II repairability requirements on the consumer's request, free of charge or for a reasonable price and within a reasonable time (Article 5). You must publish indicative repair prices (Article 5(5)), avoid impediments to repair (Article 5(6)) and keep repair service information available (Article 6).

What records or documents does Right to Repair Directive require me to keep or produce?

Where you provide the European Repair Information Form, it must be free of charge, on a durable medium, before the consumer is bound, and must specify the eleven items listed in Article 4(4). Repair service information must be kept available, free of charge, for the entire duration of the Article 5 obligation (Article 6).

What happens if I do not comply with Right to Repair Directive?

The Directive sets no fine amounts at EU level. Member States must lay down penalties for infringements of national provisions adopted under Articles 4, 5 and 6 that are effective, proportionate and dissuasive, and notified those rules to the Commission by 31 July 2026 (Article 15).

Does Right to Repair Directive apply to a UK business selling into the EU?

The obligation to repair under Article 5 applies to manufacturers established both inside and outside the Union in relation to goods placed on the Union market. Where the manufacturer is outside the Union, the cascade in Article 5(3) moves the duty to a Union-established authorised representative, importer or distributor in turn.

How do I start complying with Right to Repair Directive?

The first practical step is to check whether your goods carry repairability requirements under the Union legal acts listed in Annex II, since Articles 5 and 6 apply only to those goods. The European Repair Information Form under Article 4 is optional but conditioned.

Which ComplianceSME account includes the Right to Repair Directive toolkit?

The Right to Repair Directive agent toolkit is included in Compliance Complete.

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