Recital 6

(6) This Regulation will support production and consumption patterns that are aligned with the Union’s overall sustainability targets, including climate, environmental, energy, resource-use and biodiversity targets, while staying within planetary boundaries, by establishing a legislative framework which contributes to enabling products fit for a climate-neutral, resource-efficient and circular economy, reducing waste and ensuring that the performance of frontrunners in sustainability progressively becomes the norm. It should provide for the setting of new ecodesign requirements to improve product durability, reliability, repairability, upgradability, reusability and recyclability, improve possibilities for the refurbishment and maintenance of products, address the presence of hazardous chemicals in products, increase the energy and resource efficiency of products, including with regard to the possibility of recovery of strategic and critical raw materials, reduce their expected generation of waste and increase the recycled content in products, while ensuring their performance and safety, enabling remanufacturing and high-quality recycling and reducing carbon and environmental footprints.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-12 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.