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.

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整体法律领域和循环经济背景下的计划淘汰

企业可以利用快速的技术发展来增加销售额，方法是设计寿命较短的产品，并鼓励消费者比其他方式更快地购买替代品，这通常被称为计划报废。文章在综合考虑，从需求侧、供给侧和环境侧三个不同角度探讨有计划淘汰的同时，认为目前在不正当竞争和消费者保护法、竞争法和环境法等领域的措施相当不足。处理计划报废。因此，有必要制定一项欧盟措施，在循环经济的背景下禁止计划报废。