The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached a provisional agreement last month on the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation.

“The first element that makes a product green is the brain that designs it,” Spanish Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, says. “With the agreement reached today, we want to make sure that all the sustainable dimensions of product manufacturing are taken into consideration from the very first stage of its conception.”

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