{"id":8193,"date":"2026-10-14T13:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pglex.it\/?p=8193"},"modified":"2026-10-14T13:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:12:19","slug":"legal-alert-greenwashing-new-european-rules-take-effect-on-september-27-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pglex.it\/en\/legal-alert-greenwashing-new-european-rules-take-effect-on-september-27-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Alert | Greenwashing: New European rules take effect on September 27, 2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Directive (EU) 2024\/825, transposed into Italian law by Legislative Decree No. 30 of February 20, 2026, strengthens consumer protection against unfair commercial practices and introduces new rules regarding environmental communication and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Among the key changes are: restrictions on generic environmental claims and sustainability labels, provisions regarding climate neutrality claims, and greater protections concerning durability, reparability, and premature obsolescence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sara Maria Guglielmo<\/strong> and<strong> Chiara Manfrin<\/strong> provide an in-depth look at what is changing and what the main impacts are for economic operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directive (EU) 2024\/825, transposed into Italian law by Legislative Decree No. 30 of February 20, 2026, strengthens consumer protection against unfair commercial practices and introduces new rules regarding environmental communication&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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