Source: European Parliament
On 28 April 2025, Rapporteur David Cormand presented the draft report, emphasising the importance of protecting consumers and small businesses from unsafe products and unfair competition, stressing that, quality requirements would ultimately benefit the European market.
Among the proposed measures were the designation of a new responsible actor within the EU, the broad implementation of the Digital Product Passport (DPP), and the introduction of updated definitions for key sustainability concepts.
Most political groups welcomed the report and showed their willingness to contribute to its development. S&D supported most of the proposed measures while EPP, PfE, ECR, and ESN expressed concerns about imposing new burdens on businesses and put the focus on improving the standardisation process within the EU. Renew called on the Rapporteur to incorporate the “right to repair” into the report.
The Commission confirmed that many of the mentioned measures will be in the NLF review process while ensuring the simplification of the existing framework. However, they noted that the review will primarily focus on the legislative template, and that several of the issues raised in the report fall outside its current scope.Public procurement