Digital technologies are essential for achieving the EU’s climate ambitions. At the same time electronic devices and infrastructures carry high environmental and social costs due to their resource intensity, complex global supply chains and the linear nature of the industry. From 485 million smartphones in use in 2010 globally, this number has increased to 6.4 billion in 2021. Electrical and electronic equipment continues to be one of the fastest growing waste streams in the EU, with current annual growth rates of 2%, while it is estimated that less than 40% of electronic waste is recycled in the EU. The Commission’s Circular Electronics Initiative (CEI), as part of the Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP), will offer a holistic approach to tackling this problem. The report focusses on the Right to Repair as one key aspect of the CEI with a particular emphasis on consumer electronic products, notably smartphones, tablets and laptops. The report examines the opportunities and challenges of implementing a right to repair for electronic devices at European level. While barriers to repair are of various nature (e.g. technical, social, cultural), the report focuses on legal barriers, on barriers affecting repair supply and on political barriers and enablers. Major challenges arise from IP protection mechanisms leading to restriction in the sharing of repair manuals, digital locks blocking repair or end-user licence agreements (EULAs) and conditioned sales contracts forbidding repair. The potential for growth of the repair of electronic devices sector in Europe has only been partly realised, due to its fragmentation, high costs, a lack of skilled workers, and issues related to consumer trust. Despite powerful social movements, no political Right to Repair for digital devices could be implemented so far, especially due to heavy lobbying efforts from the digital manufacturing industry. Promoting the repair of digital devices could lead to major environmental benefits. Initial research shows that extending the lifespan of smartphones by just one year in the EU could save GHG emissions equivalent to removing over 1 million cars from EU roads daily. At the same time, extending the lifespan of phones also reduces environmental impacts, such as toxic leaks or biodiversity loss during mining and production processes. In comparison, repair is less energy-intensive than recycling and should be a preferred option. In addition, improved reparability has significant socio-economic benefits. Extending product lifetimes can lead to reduced costs for consumers, for instance, up to 338€ on smartphones over a period of 4.5 years, with a two-year lifetime extension and self-replacement of battery. More accessible repair would be especially beneficial for marginalised communities. As the repair sector is relatively labour-intensive and local, with low skills entry barriers, promoting repair would create local jobs. Negative impacts on turnover and employment would be concentrated on manufacturers, which are mostly located outside of the EU. From a geopolitical perspective, fostering repair and reuse can reduce the dependence on critical raw materials and chips manufactured abroad. A set of recommendations looks at elements essential in the implementation of a right to repair. This includes for example more modular designs as well as access to spare parts, tools, repair information and manuals and potential solutions to obtain reparability information upon purchase. Influencing consumer behaviours and preferences with education, communication and nudging, can help promote repair over replacement. The report focuses on recommendations addressing certain legal barriers and to support the supply of repair. To overcome IP barriers, a broad exemption for repair is needed, while at the same time ensuring that existing exemptions are not used against repair. One minimum option would be to make facultative exemptions in the 2001 Copyright Directive obligatory to reach harmonization across member states. In addition, circumventing digital locks should be possible for repair purposes and contracting out of EULAs prohibited. Fiscal incentives to encourage repairs could include lower or no VAT rates for repair services or repair subsidies. Upskilling and reskilling the workforce to ensure the needed technical skills for repair, introducing standards for repairs, extended warranty schemes and setting up national and EU wide networks of repairers could be additional measures to increase repair rates. Finally, innovative solutions, such as 3D printing, or developing donations and take back schemes could facilitate access to spare parts for repairers.