A Phone Designed to Last: EU Rules from 2025
Advanced Spanish reading on the EU's 2025 ecodesign rules for smartphone batteries, spare parts, repair and software support.
Un móvil diseñado para durar: las reglas europeas de 2025
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What you'll learn
Circular-economy vocabulary, legal time limits, product durability and advanced structures for requirements and hypothetical choices.
A C1 Spanish article explains how EU rules applying from 20 June 2025 connect smartphone durability, repair, spare parts and software support.
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puestos en el mercado
newplaced on the market
A legal and commercial expression for products first made available on a market.
Useful in texts about product rules and consumer law.
final de las ventas
newat the end of sales
Refers to the point when a model is no longer being sold on the market.
Useful for understanding time limits after a product leaves the market.
al menos
newat least
Sets a minimum that may be exceeded.
Useful for interpreting requirements and quantities.
En lugar de
newinstead of
Introduces an alternative to an action or choice.
Useful for comparing two possible decisions.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Durability
durabilidad
durability
The ability of a product or component to remain usable over time.
Useful for discussing product quality and lifespan.
Spare part
repuesto
spare part
A replacement component used to repair a product.
Useful when arranging or comparing repairs.
Disassembly
desmontaje
disassembly
The process of taking a product apart into its components.
Useful for understanding repair and recycling processes.
Repairers
reparadores
repairers
People or businesses that repair products.
Useful when discussing access to maintenance services.
Useful life
vida útil
useful life
The period during which a product can perform its function.
Useful for evaluating long-term product use.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Apply to
se aplican a
apply to
Aplicarse a indicates which people or things are covered by a rule.
Useful for defining the scope of laws and requirements.
Expressing a requirement
debe soportar
must withstand
Deber plus infinitive presents an obligation or requirement.
Useful for describing standards and rules.
Allowing an action
permite mantener
allows the device to be kept
Permitir plus infinitive shows that one action makes another possible.
Useful for explaining practical effects without adding a purpose clause.
A hypothetical choice
¿Cambiarías una batería
Would you replace a battery
The conditional asks about what someone would do in an imagined situation.
Useful for discussing preferences and possible decisions.
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