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| 3.1. | Harmonised technical specifications established by delegated acts referred to in Article 7(1) may, as appropriate for the products they cover, specify that products shall be designed, manufactured, and packaged in such a way that one or more of the following inherent product environmental aspects are, over the product’s life cycle, addressed wherever possible without safety loss or by outweighing negative environmental impact, and to the extent not covered by other Union legal acts: (a) maximising durability and reliability of the product or its components as expressed through a product’s technical lifetime indication of real use information on the product, resistance to stress or ageing mechanisms and in terms of the expected average life span, the minimum life span under worst but still realistic conditions, and in terms of the minimum life span requirements and prevention of premature obsolescence; (b) minimising life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions; (c) maximising reused, recycled and by-product content; (d) the selection of safe, sustainable-by-design and environmentally benign substances; (e) energy use and energy efficiency; (f) resource efficiency; (g) modularity; (h) identifying which product or parts thereof can be reused after deinstallation (reusability), and in what quantities; (i) upgradability; (j) the ease of reparability during the expected life span, including compatibility with commonly available spare parts; (k) the ease of maintenance and refurbishment during the expected life span; (l) recyclability and the capability to be remanufactured; (m) the capability of different materials or substances to be separated and recovered during dismantling or recycling procedures; (n) sustainable sourcing; (o) minimising the packaging/product ratio; (p) amounts of waste generated, notably hazardous waste.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-17 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.