ABSTRACT

The objective of this contribution is to present three regulatory approaches to ‘greening’ consumer sales law. Two doctrinal proposals are compared and contrasted, namely the position of the European Law Institute and the academic draft of the amendment of Directive 2019/771. They are presented against the EU Proposal for a Directive on common rules promoting the repair of goods. Legal scholarship opts for significant amendment of Directive 2019/771, aligning in numerous aspects. The EU proposal goes in the opposite direction, claiming that the regulatory area within which the intervention is needed is much broader, but the Directive 2019/771 does not require a comprehensive revision.