AGEC Law and Repairability Index: what your PIM must handle in 2026

The French AGEC Law (Anti-waste and Circular Economy Law) has been layering obligations on distributors and importers since 2020: Repairability Index, Durability Index, Triman logo, sorting information label, hazardous substance disclosures, textile traceability, repair subsidy eligibility. If you sell to French consumers — directly or through a marketplace — you are in scope, even if you are not the manufacturer. A PIM (Product Information Management) is today the only realistic way to centralise this data, publish it on product pages, push it to marketplaces, and prepare for the EU Digital Product Passport 2026.

AGEC Law in 2026: where we stand

The French Law no. 2020-105 of 10 February 2020 on the fight against waste and the circular economy — known as the AGEC Law — sets the French framework for the circular economy. It rolls out in waves, with new obligations triggered as implementing decrees are published. Authoritative sources: ecologie.gouv.fr, the French Environment Agency ADEME, and Légifrance.

Key milestones:

• 2020 — AGEC Law published.
• 2021 — Repairability Index comes into force on 5 initial categories: smartphones, laptops, televisions, front-loading washing machines, electric lawnmowers.
• 2022 — Extension to 4 more categories (vacuum cleaners, top-loading washing machines, dishwashers, high-pressure cleaners). Progressive generalisation of the Triman logo and sorting information label (Info-tri) to products subject to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
• 2024-2025 — Durability Index enters into force for televisions and washing machines, progressively replacing the Repairability Index on those categories.
• 2026 — Extension of the Durability Index to more electrical and electronic equipment categories, and convergence with the EU Digital Product Passport (DPP) mandated by Ecodesign Regulation (EU) 2024/1781.

Exact application dates are defined category by category in French implementing decrees. Always check Légifrance and ecologie.gouv.fr for the version in force on your scope.

One key point for non-French distributors: AGEC does not replace EU obligations (REACH, RoHS, CE, WEEE, Packaging Regulation, Battery Regulation). It adds on top of them for products sold on the French market. Compliance must therefore be designed in layers: product conformity (EU) + consumer information and end-of-life rules (France via AGEC) + Digital Product Passport (EU, forthcoming). This is why the number of regulatory attributes per product reference has doubled or even tripled in five years.

The Repairability Index (and its successor, the Durability Index)

The Repairability Index is a score out of 10 designed by ADEME and the French Ministry of Ecological Transition. It is based on 5 main criteria: documentation, disassembly, availability of spare parts, price of spare parts, and category-specific criteria.

Categories currently subject to the Repairability Index:

• Smartphones
• Laptops
• Televisions (transitioning to the Durability Index)
• Front- and top-loading washing machines (transitioning to the Durability Index)
• Electric lawnmowers
• Vacuum cleaners (corded, cordless, robot)
• Dishwashers
• High-pressure cleaners

The Durability Index, rolled out from 2024-2025 on televisions and washing machines, goes further: it combines 14 criteria covering repairability, reliability and robustness (resistance to failure, estimated lifespan, extended commercial warranties, etc.). It will progressively replace the Repairability Index on the categories it covers.

Your obligations as a distributor:

• Display the score in-store next to the price, and online on the product page, in a visible and legible way
• Make the detailed sub-scores available to consumers upon request
• Obtain the score from the manufacturer — you do not compute it yourself, but you are accountable for displaying it correctly
• Update the score whenever the manufacturer publishes a new value

AGEC consumer information: what you must publish on every product page

Article 13 of the AGEC Law mandates strengthened transparency on environmental product characteristics. Depending on the category, the following data must appear on product pages and packaging:

• Hazardous substances — notably SVHCs (Substances of Very High Concern) above 0.1% by weight, consistent with REACH
• Endocrine disruptors — list of suspected or confirmed substances identified by the French agency ANSES
• Textile traceability — for clothing and textile accessories, geographic origin of weaving, dyeing/printing and confection
• Eligibility for the repair subsidy (French repair fund) — when the product belongs to an eligible category
• Presence of palm oil — for relevant cosmetic and food products
• Recyclable or recycled content — share of recycled materials and end-of-life recyclability
• Commercial warranty duration and spare-parts availability

In practice, an AGEC-compliant product page now carries dozens of additional structured attributes compared to a classic commercial page. Without a centralised system, these data scatter across supplier PDFs, emails and spreadsheets — and end up missing or incorrectly published.

Display format matters as much as the data itself. The index must appear close to the price, in a font size equivalent to other product features. Substance declarations cannot be buried in a 40-page PDF: they must be directly readable on the online product page. These formal requirements explain why simply collecting the data is not enough — you must also be able to drive its publication per sales channel.

Triman and Info-tri: displaying the sorting instructions

The Triman logo is mandatory on all household products subject to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR): packaging, paper, textiles, furniture, toys, sports goods, DIY and garden products, electrical and electronic equipment, batteries, and more.

Triman is paired with the sorting information label (Info-tri), a compact pictogram telling consumers how to sort each component of the product or its packaging. Info-tri is not generic — it depends on the EPR stream and the product composition.

Your obligations:

• Display Triman on the product, its packaging, instructions or online product page — any of these supports is acceptable, provided it is visible
• Display the relevant Info-tri (yellow bin, glass container, textile collection point, waste centre, WEEE collection point…)
• Update sorting instructions when EPR streams change their rules

How PixeePIM handles AGEC natively

The PixeePIM Compliance module embeds AGEC obligations into the catalogue structure itself. Each product carries native fields:

• Repairability Index (score out of 10) and sub-scores by criterion
• Durability Index (score out of 10) with its 14 sub-criteria
• Declared substances — SVHCs, endocrine disruptors, allergens, palm oil
• Textile traceability — weaving, dyeing and confection origins
• Repair subsidy eligibility and applicable EPR category
• Triman and Info-tri pictograms generated automatically from product category and packaging composition
• Linked documents — manufacturer declarations, safety data sheets, attestations

Field versioning handles the evolution of thresholds and categories: when a new decree extends the Durability Index to an additional category, the PIM updates every concerned product without manual line-by-line edits. Conditional display logic ensures that each product page pushed to Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, Cdiscount or Mirakl carries the right AGEC fields for that channel.

From AGEC to the EU Digital Product Passport 2026

Good news for distributors already engaged with AGEC: most of the structured data you collect today (composition, durability, recyclability, hazardous substances, traceability) will be reused as-is in the Digital Product Passport (DPP) mandated by Ecodesign Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 from 2026-2027 depending on category.

On the first DPP categories (textiles, electronics, batteries, furniture), we estimate that roughly 80% of DPP fields overlap with those required by AGEC. Investing in AGEC structuring today is investing in DPP readiness.

Read our dedicated article on the EU Digital Product Passport 2026 for the full scope, calendar and data requirements.

Where to start, concretely

1. Inventory — Identify which of your products fall under the Repairability Index, the Durability Index, EPR streams, and Article 13 information obligations (substances, textiles, etc.). Clean category mapping is the prerequisite to any rule-based automation.
2. Collection — Request structured data from your manufacturers: repairability score, sub-scores, substance declarations, textile origins, EPR attestations. A standardised supplier questionnaire saves significant time.
3. Structuring — Create dedicated fields in your PIM (score, sub-scores, substances, traceability, Info-tri). Do not bury them in product descriptions: they must be attributes — indexable, exportable, auditable.
4. Publishing — Push these fields to product pages on your storefront and marketplaces, with display templates that respect legal requirements (visible score, paired Triman and Info-tri, etc.).
5. Maintenance — Set up workflows to refresh scores on product changes and to track regulatory updates (new categories, new thresholds).

FAQ

Am I in scope if I resell without manufacturing?
Yes. As a distributor or importer placing the product on the French market, you are accountable for consumer information, Repairability or Durability Index display, Triman and Info-tri. Liability is joint with the manufacturer, but the French market authority (DGCCRF) can sanction the distributor directly.

What are the penalties for non-compliance?
Penalties vary by obligation. For an unpublished Repairability Index, fines can currently reach €3,000 for an individual and €15,000 for a legal entity per non-compliant product under the current texts — amounts to verify at the time of inspection as they may evolve. Penalties for undisclosed hazardous substances or missing Triman can be considerably higher and cumulative.

Repairability Index or Durability Index — which one to display?
It depends on the product category. For televisions and washing machines, the Durability Index took over in 2024-2025. For other categories (smartphones, laptops, vacuum cleaners, etc.), the Repairability Index remains in force pending further decrees. Your PIM must handle both indices and switch automatically by category.

Does the PIM handle regulatory updates?
PixeePIM keeps up to date the list of categories in scope, thresholds, criteria grids, and Triman/Info-tri pictograms as new decrees are published. Fields are versioned: when a category moves from Repairability to Durability Index, the legacy field stays accessible for history while the new one takes over for publication.

Compatible with Amazon, Cdiscount, Mirakl listings?
Yes. AGEC fields (index, substances, Triman, Info-tri) are mapped to the specific attributes that French marketplaces now require in their feeds. PixeePIM transforms the data per target channel — Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon SP-API, Mirakl, Cdiscount Marketplace, ManoMano, and more.

How do AGEC, REACH/RoHS/CE/WEEE and the future DPP fit together?
These obligations stack rather than conflict. AGEC adds French-market consumer information and end-of-life requirements; REACH/RoHS/CE/WEEE cover EU-level chemical and safety compliance; the DPP unifies all of this in a single digital identifier. A well-structured PIM serves all three layers without duplication.