We’re pleased to share the next name for papers by the Journal of Regulation, Market & Innovation (JMLI):
The JLMI invitations contributions with regards to “Regulatory Initiatives on Ecodesign and Sustainable Merchandise”, to discover the authorized frameworks, challenges, and alternatives associated to ecodesign, with the purpose of fostering an in-depth understanding of the way it can affect financial development and the way it is going to be built-in within the present authorized framework. This Particular Part invitations scholarly contributions analyzing the position of rising sustainability initiatives, introducing new sustainability necessities and tasks, significantly within the EU regulatory framework.
The idea of ecodesign is outlined by Regulation 1781/2024 as “the mixing of environmental sustainability concerns into the traits of a product and the processes going down all through the product’s worth chain”.
Regulation 1781/2024 is among the pillars of the brand new European laws to enhance the sustainability of the financial system and is a part of the EU Technique for sustainable merchandise. It contains product coverage ideas and offers a Digital Product Passport, efficiency and knowledge necessities, producer accountability for sustainability with influence evaluation, obligatory sustainability labelling and technical requirements for sustainability. It enhances the Company Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Company Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which impose transparency and due diligence obligations on company actions.
We welcome unique articles that present insights into the authorized dimensions of ecodesign and discover, however will not be restricted to, the next subjects:
Contracts and Ecodesign: how ecodesign interferes with the creation and provide of merchandise and regulatory challenges linked to this transformation.
Authorized Design and Authorized Tech: evaluation of the brand new Digital Product Passport and its position within the governance of data duties and provide chains.
Sustainable Provide Chains and World Commerce: authorized challenges in guaranteeing that ecodesign ideas are upheld all through international provide chains, significantly in mild of worldwide commerce legal guidelines and cross-border environmental laws.
Product Legal responsibility and Environmental Influence: authorized views on product legal responsibility within the context of ecodesign, specializing in the implications of design choices that decide a product’s environmental influence.
Client Safety and Ecodesign: steadiness between client rights, security, and environmental accountability. How client safety legal guidelines will be tailored to assist sustainable product design whereas guaranteeing client pursuits are met and the position performed by prolonged producer legal responsibility.
Mental Property and Ecodesign: how mental property regulation (patents, emblems, and design rights) intersects with ecodesign. Concerns for shielding eco-friendly improvements and the challenges confronted by companies on this area.
Company Duty and Accountability: authorized expectations for firms in adhering to environmental requirements and sustainable practices. An examination of legal guidelines regulating company reporting on environmental efficiency and the position of ecodesign in assembly Company Social Duty (CSR) obligations.
Case Research: evaluation of authorized precedents, case research, or authorized battles associated to ecodesign, illustrating how authorized frameworks have been utilized or challenged within the context of sustainable product design.
We welcome theoretical, empirical, and case-based approaches that present a deeper understanding of ecodesign, its sensible functions, its challenges and penalties for the financial system and its implications throughout the present regulatory framework.
The Editorial Board will choose articles primarily based on the standard of analysis and writing, range, and relevance of matter. The novelty of the educational contribution can be a necessary requirement.
Potential articles needs to be submitted within the type of abstracts (round 800 phrases) or draft articles (see under) to submissions.jlmi@iuse.it by 21 February 2025. Authors will probably be notified of the result of their submission by 3 March 2025.
Closing articles shall be delivered by 3 June 2025 and may conform to the journal type information that’s primarily based on OSCOLA.
Sometimes, the JLMI accepts contributions throughout the vary of 10.000-15.000 phrases, together with footnotes, however each shorter and longer articles will probably be thought of. Submitted articles will bear a rigorous double-blind peer-review course of. Previous to submission, potential authors are invited to test the JLMI Authors’ pointers (additionally with regard to simultaneous submission to different journals) and Code of Ethics. For additional info, or for session on a possible submission, please e-mail us at editors.jlmi@iuse.it.
Authors are required to reveal if they’ve submitted their article elsewhere, each in case of unfavorable and pending evaluations, and promptly replace the editorial board of any modifications on this regard, all through the entire editorial course of with the JLMI.
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