Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products, amending Directive (EU) 2020/1828 and Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 and repealing Directive 2009/125/EC.

This Regulation establishes a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements that products have to comply with to be placed on the market or put into service. The purpose of this Regulation is improving the environmental sustainability of products in order to make sustainable products the norm and to reduce the overall carbon footprint and environmental footprint of products over their life cycle, and of ensuring the free movement of sustainable products within the internal market. It also establishes a digital product passport, provides for the setting of mandatory green public procurement requirements. Article 16 sets out information requirements to be included in a label. In the context of programmes from which SMEs, in particular micro-enterprises, can benefit, the Commission shall ensure there are initiatives which help those enterprises to integrate environmental sustainability, including energy efficiency, into their value chain. This Regulation lays down the obligations of economic operators, such as taking necessary measures which can reasonably be expected to prevent the need to destroy unsold consumer products.
This Regulation applies to any physical goods that are placed on the market or put into service, including components and intermediate products. However, it does not apply to: food, feed, medicinal products, veterinary medicinal products, living plants, animals and micro-organisms, products of human origin, products of plants and animals relating directly to their future reproduction, and vehicles.
This Regulation makes minor amendments by adding this Regulation to Point (27) of Annex I to Directive (EU) 2020/1828, and amending Article 77 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 regarding the obligation of economic operators placing the battery on the market or putting it into service to upload the unique identifier in the registry.