Countdown to the application of requirements for ecodesign of products

On June 28, 2024, the European Ecodesign Regulation was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (2024/1781/EU) (" Regulation on ecodesign "), which entered into force on July 18, 2024. This regulation means a radical change in the production of a wide range of products and directly affects the supply chain of all companies that intend to introduce products into the European Union. Its basic objective is to increase the sustainability of products by introducing a series of requirements and prohibitions that will be adapted to each group of products through delegated acts of the European Commission. This regulation is a framework legal regulation, which means that specific rules for products will be decided gradually over time, product by product, or horizontally, based on groups of products with similar characteristics. (Elisabet Cots, more at lexology.com)