The Belgian green party Groen! and Ecolo would require manufacturers to have a ‘best before date’ on electronic devices. Consumers would therefore be the expected life can weigh on a purchase.
The reason for the proposal is that electronic devices according to the parties, still less to last, writes the Belgian newspaper The Latest News in its paper edition, according to news agency Belga.”Manufacturers design their devices, sometimes even deliberately so that they don’t last a long time’, would Meyrem Almaci of Groen! according to the newspaper to have said. On the websites of Green! and Ecolo is still nothing to be found about the proposal.
Information about the number of years that buyers of a particular product is about use, would help them with the purchase, the parties consider. “By the expected service life display, consumers can consciously opt for a cheaper mobile phone that is two years or a more expensive copy that only after five years the spirit gives,” says Almaci. In the Dutch law plays the reasonably expected lifetime of a product is currently a role in the legal warranty period, but for each type of product, the length is not fixed. In Belgium, the statutory warranty period of 2 years.