A person or business that provides professional repair or maintenance services for a product.
Professional repairer identifies a natural or legal person providing professional repair or maintenance services. The term supports right-to-repair and product-information access without making the repairer the manufacturer or market-entry economic operator.
ESPR uses professional-repairer language in the wider repairability and service ecosystem. In DPP work, the term helps explain who may need usable product information without confusing service access with product-compliance responsibility.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products
a natural or legal person that provides professional repair or maintenance services for a product, irrespective of whether that person acts within the manufacturer’s distribution system or independently;
Reference: Article 2, point 48
Implementation records should capture the repairer identifier, professional service record, repair-information access, maintenance service, spare-part request, product identifier, permission boundary, and separation from manufacturer, importer, distributor, or DPP service-provider duties.
Professional repairer is a professional-service actor control: the evidence consequence is that repair and maintenance access can support product longevity while keeping service records distinct from passport responsibility and market-entry obligations.