Consumer Protection in the European Union Regarding Planned Obsolescence and the Right to Repair

Planned obsolescence is a practice that anticipates the entropy cycle of a product from an objective point of view or just from the consumer's perspective. Recent practices, especially in the electronic goods market, add a second type of obsolescence, caused after the goods are in the consumer's possession and long after the legal warranty has expired. The present study focuses on the framing of this practice of obsolescence, on the offence of the right to repair, and seeks to find the legal response within the European Union Law, in terms of consumer protection