Mr. Barry McGreal:

Colleagues from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications who would have wider circular economy responsibilities might want to chip in, but from my perspective on this, with the right to repair directive, and we also have the ecodesign directive in the Department, certainly the idea is to drive behaviour to put an obligation on manufacturers to design repairable products, and that obligation will be on all goods coming into the EU. I cannot speak to consumer patterns in China or wherever but certainly, the EU will be trying to change consumer patterns in the EU to move towards repairability by giving greater access to information about pricing, repairability and products that are designed to be repairable and giving people the information and the choice to do and carry out that.