{"id":1769,"date":"2022-06-16T10:54:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T08:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T10:54:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T08:54:26","slug":"planned-obsolescence","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned obsolescence"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\"><p>Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars: Where Environmental Law Meets Economic Law<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"speaker\"\n    >\nSpeaker<\/h2>\n<p>Prof. Denis Philippe, <i>Attorney at Law, Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, Visiting professor at the University of Paris X<\/i><\/p><p>Ana\u00efs Michel, <i>PhD candidate at the KU Leuven<\/i><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"abstract\"\n    >\nAbstract<\/h2>\n<p>Planned obsolescence is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a certain pre-determined period of time upon which it decreases its functions or suddenly ceases to function, or might be perceived as unfashionable.<\/p><p>This practice jeopardizes the rights of the consumer and the environment.<\/p><p>The remedies offered currently by the civil law are not sufficient enough to protect these rights.<\/p><p>France has already issued a law making of planned obsolescence a criminal offence.<\/p><p>The European Union has on March 30, 2022, proposed to update the EU consumer rules to empower consumers for the green transition. The updated rules will ensure that consumers can take informed and environment-friendly choices when buying their products. Consumers will have a right to know how long a product is designed to last for and how, if at all, it can be repaired.<\/p><p>The seminar will explain the content of these new rules and put them into perspective.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"registration\"\n    >\nRegistration<\/h2>\n<p>Please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.fr\/e\/planned-obsolescence-tickets-368132764007\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">here <\/a>to register.<\/p><p>Click here to find out more about the Sustainability Lunchtime Seminar Series.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image  object-fit--contain\">\n    \n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-image unilux-custom-image-block\"\n                alt=\"\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2024\/01\/logos_en_bloc-6.png\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2024\/01\/logos_en_bloc-6-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2024\/01\/logos_en_bloc-6-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2024\/01\/logos_en_bloc-6-768x327.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2024\/01\/logos_en_bloc-6.png 1470w\"\n                style=\"object-position: 50.00% 50.00%; font-family: &quot;object-fit: contain; object-position: 50.00% 50.00%;&quot;; aspect-ratio: 21\/9; object-fit: contain; width: 100%;\"\n        loading=\"lazy\"\n\/>    <\/figure><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars: Where Environmental Law Meets Economic Law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1770,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2022-07-07 11:30:00","event_end_date":"2022-07-07 12:30:00","event_speaker_name":"","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":"online event: registration via Eventbrite","event_street":"","event_location_link":"","event_zip_code":"","event_city":"","event_country":"LU"},"events-topic":[305],"events-type":[],"organisation":[103,100],"authorship":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Planned obsolescence - FDEF I Uni.lu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars: Where Environmental Law Meets Economic Law\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Planned obsolescence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars: Where Environmental Law Meets Economic Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FDEF FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uni.FDEF.lu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2026\/03\/03111953\/FDEF_SM-Profile_1600x1600px-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Dur\u00e9e de lecture estim\u00e9e\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/\",\"name\":\"Planned obsolescence - FDEF I Uni.lu\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/default-7.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-16T08:54:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-16T08:54:26+00:00\",\"description\":\"Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars: Where Environmental Law Meets Economic Law\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/default-7.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/default-7.jpg\",\"width\":1500,\"height\":1125},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Facult\u00e9 de Droit, d\u2019\u00c9conomie et de Finance\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Events\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Planned obsolescence\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/\",\"name\":\"FDEF\",\"description\":\"Facult\u00e9 de Droit, d\u2019\u00c9conomie et de Finance I Uni.lu\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/#organization\"},\"alternateName\":\"Facult\u00e9 de Droit, d\u2019\u00c9conomie et de Finance I Universit\u00e9 du Luxembourg\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/#organization\",\"name\":\"FDEF - Universit\u00e9 du Luxembourg I Uni.lu\",\"alternateName\":\"Facult\u00e9 de Droit, d\u2019\u00c9conomie et de Finance\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2026\/03\/03111953\/FDEF_SM-Profile_1600x1600px-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2026\/03\/03111953\/FDEF_SM-Profile_1600x1600px-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":2560,\"caption\":\"FDEF - Universit\u00e9 du Luxembourg I Uni.lu\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uni.FDEF.lu\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/fdef-uni-lu\/\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Planned obsolescence - FDEF I Uni.lu","description":"Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars: Where Environmental Law Meets Economic Law","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/","og_locale":"fr_FR","og_type":"article","og_title":"Planned obsolescence","og_description":"Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars: Where Environmental Law Meets Economic Law","og_url":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/","og_site_name":"FDEF FR","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uni.FDEF.lu","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":2560,"url":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2026\/03\/03111953\/FDEF_SM-Profile_1600x1600px-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Dur\u00e9e de lecture estim\u00e9e":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/","url":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/","name":"Planned obsolescence - FDEF I Uni.lu","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/default-7.jpg","datePublished":"2022-06-16T08:54:26+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-16T08:54:26+00:00","description":"Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars: Where Environmental Law Meets Economic Law","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"fr-FR","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"fr-FR","@id":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/default-7.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/06\/default-7.jpg","width":1500,"height":1125},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/planned-obsolescence\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Facult\u00e9 de Droit, d\u2019\u00c9conomie et de Finance","item":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Events","item":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/events\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Planned obsolescence"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/","name":"FDEF","description":"Facult\u00e9 de Droit, d\u2019\u00c9conomie et de Finance I Uni.lu","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/#organization"},"alternateName":"Facult\u00e9 de Droit, d\u2019\u00c9conomie et de Finance I Universit\u00e9 du Luxembourg","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"fr-FR"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/#organization","name":"FDEF - Universit\u00e9 du Luxembourg I Uni.lu","alternateName":"Facult\u00e9 de Droit, d\u2019\u00c9conomie et de Finance","url":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"fr-FR","@id":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2026\/03\/03111953\/FDEF_SM-Profile_1600x1600px-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2026\/03\/03111953\/FDEF_SM-Profile_1600x1600px-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":2560,"caption":"FDEF - Universit\u00e9 du Luxembourg I Uni.lu"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uni.FDEF.lu","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/fdef-uni-lu\/"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/1769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"events-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events-topic?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"events-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events-type?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"organisation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fdef-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organisation?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}