Planned Obsolescence in the Context of a Holistic Legal Sphere and the Circular Economy

Jurgita Malinauskaite and Fatih Buğra Erdem

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2021, vol. 41, issue 3, 719-749

Abstract: Businesses may take advantage of rapid technological developments to increase sales by designing products with a short lifespan and encouraging consumers to buy a replacement more quickly than they otherwise might have to, which is commonly known as planned obsolescence. While employing a holistic approach and exploring planned obsolescence from three different angles—the demand side, supply side and environmental side—the article argues that the current measures in the fields of unfair competition and consumer protection law, competition law and environmental law are quite insufficient to deal with planned obsolescence. Therefore, there is a need for an EU measure outlawing planned obsolescence in the context of the circular economy.

Keywords: planned obsolescence; circular economy; consumer protection and unfair competition; competition law; environmental law (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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