Article 8

The Commission shall review this Regulation in the light of technological progress and present the result of this assessment including, if appropriate, a draft revision proposal, to the Consultation Forum established pursuant to Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 of the European Parliament and of the Council (5) by 20 September 2027. The review shall in particular assess: the need to revise the scope of this Regulation to reflect market evolution; the appropriateness of including smart wearables in the scope of this Regulation and of laying down generic and specific requirements for these; the appropriateness of setting specific ecodesign requirements on the resistance of slate tablets to accidental drops; the appropriateness of increasing the stringency of the requirement on battery endurance in cycles; the appropriateness of defining a standardised battery that could be used interchangeably across a range of mobile phones and slate tablets; the need to set out requirements to enable or improve repair and upgradeability with used or third-party spare parts; the need to revise or extend the list of spare parts, of spare parts availability per target group including professional repairers and end-users, and of repair information for which requirements are set out; the inclusion of further chemical elements in the information requirements in Annex II; the need to include reliability requirements related to foldable devices; the appropriateness to impose requirements on the recycled content of materials; the appropriateness of imposing further information requirements on spare part prices; the option for manufacturers to make data for 3D printing of plastic components (e.g. battery compartment cover, buttons etc.) publicly available on a free-access website, either in addition to their obligation to make these spare parts available to professional repairers or end-users or as a means to fulfil this obligation; the appropriateness to prohibit serialisation of parts; the appropriateness of requirements regarding functionality updates to the operating system; the appropriateness of the exemptions for foldable devices; the appropriateness of setting ecodesign requirements for mobile phones with a flexible main display which the user can unroll and roll up partly or fully; the appropriateness of extension of the periods for availability of updates to the operating system; the appropriateness of extension of the period for availability of spare parts.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-03 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.