To stay within planetary boundaries, changes in society’s consumption patterns are necessary, empowering consumers to participate in the green transition, avoiding generic, misleading, or unfounded environmental claims, improving the environmental design of products, and ensuring non-toxic material cycles.
In a context marked by accelerating climate change and increasing demand for energy and resources, the European Union has promoted a range of policies and initiatives aimed at fostering a sustainable consumption and production model. Key regulations adopted include the new Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, the Directive on empowering consumers for the green transition, the Directive on green claims, and the Directive on common rules promoting the repair of goods.
Given this new context, businesses must adapt their products to the new regulatory framework, which will set ecodesign requirements for most physical goods placed on the EU market and ensure that communication regarding the environmental aspects of their products is in compliance with legal requirements. Meanwhile, public administrations must ensure that the new legal framework for sustainable products is properly enforced.
Among the services Terraqui offers are the following:
- Monitoring and analysis of applicable legislation at local, national, European, and international levels regarding sustainable consumption and products, as well as their interpretation by the courts.
- Advice on drafting regulations related to sustainable consumption and products.
- Legal advice on ecodesign product regulations.
- Legal advice on ecolabelling, environmental claims, and requirements for marketing sustainable products.
- Legal advice on compliance with safety regulations and hazardous substance controls (REACH and CLP).
- Legal advice on compliance with regulations concerning food contact materials.
- Legal advice on fertiliser and pesticide regulations.
- Legal advice on environmental aspects of construction products, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices regulations.
- Legal advice on establishing, managing, and adhering to extended producer responsibility schemes and compliance with extended producer responsibility regulations.
- Legal representation in administrative and judicial procedures related to sustainable consumption and products.
- Legal actions to ensure compliance with sustainable consumption and product regulations.
- Training on sustainable consumption and product regulations for businesses, public administrations, and other organisations.
- Legal support in identifying and obtaining grants for projects related to sustainable consumption and products.
- Advice on incorporating environmental clauses related to sustainable consumption and products in public tenders and grants.
