Shopify EU Ecodesign & Repairability Schema — France Indice de Réparabilité, EPREL & Sustainability Structured Data

France Repairability Index — Legal Requirement and Schema Implementation

France's AGEC anti-waste law (Loi Anti-Gaspillage, Decree No. 2020-1757) mandates that five product categories display a repairability index score at the point of sale — both in-store and online — since 1 January 2021. The score runs from 0 to 10 and is calculated by ADEME's official scoring methodology across five sub-criteria: documentation availability, spare parts availability, spare parts price, ease of disassembly, and product-specific criteria.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Product",
  "name": "FairPhone 5 — Modular Smartphone, EU Ecodesign Compliant, Repairability Index 9.3/10",
  "description": "Modular, repairable 5G smartphone designed for longevity. Repairability index 9.3/10 (highest-rated smartphone in France). 8 years of software support. Spare parts available for 10 years. EU Ecodesign regulation (EU) 2022/1926 compliant. 50% post-consumer recycled plastic by weight.",
  "sku": "FP5-256-BLUE",
  "brand": { "@type": "Brand", "name": "Fairphone" },
  "sustainabilityFeature": "France repairability index (indice de réparabilité): 9.3/10 — highest-rated smartphone. Spare parts available 10 years from purchase. 8 years OS/security updates. 50% post-consumer recycled plastic (PCR). Fairtrade Gold certified minerals. B Corp certified. EU Ecodesign Regulation (EU) 2022/1926 compliant.",
  "hasCertification": [
    {
      "@type": "Certification",
      "name": "EU Ecodesign Regulation (EU) 2022/1926 Compliance — Smartphones",
      "issuedBy": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "European Commission",
        "url": "https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/energy-efficiency/energy-efficient-products/ecodesign-regulation_en"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Certification",
      "name": "B Corp Certification",
      "issuedBy": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "B Lab",
        "url": "https://www.bcorporation.net"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Certification",
      "name": "Fairtrade Gold Certification",
      "issuedBy": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "Fairtrade International",
        "url": "https://www.fairtrade.net"
      }
    }
  ],
  "additionalProperty": [
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Repairability Index",
      "value": "9.3",
      "minValue": "0",
      "maxValue": "10",
      "description": "France indice de réparabilité 9.3/10 — calculated per ADEME scoring methodology (Decree No. 2020-1757). Criteria: documentation 10/10, spare parts availability 10/10, spare parts price 8.5/10, disassembly ease 9.5/10, product-specific criteria 9.0/10.",
      "propertyID": "https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/indice-reparabilite"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Spare Parts Availability",
      "value": "10",
      "unitCode": "ANN",
      "description": "Spare parts available for 10 years from date of purchase"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Software Support Period",
      "value": "8",
      "unitCode": "ANN",
      "description": "8 years OS security and feature updates from product launch"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Post-Consumer Recycled Plastic Content",
      "value": "50",
      "unitCode": "P1",
      "description": "50% of plastic components by weight are post-consumer recycled (PCR)"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Recycled Tin Content",
      "value": "100",
      "unitCode": "P1",
      "description": "100% recycled tin in soldering"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Product Design for Repairability",
      "value": "Modular — 8 replaceable modules (battery, screen, camera, speakers, USB-C port, back cover, top module, display frame)"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Packaging Material",
      "value": "100% recycled and recyclable cardboard — no plastic packaging"
    }
  ],
  "offers": {
    "@type": "Offer",
    "price": "699.00",
    "priceCurrency": "EUR",
    "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock"
  }
}
</script>

EU Ecodesign Regulation — Key Requirements in Structured Data

The EU Ecodesign Regulation framework (formerly Directive 2009/125/EC, now Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 — the "Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation" or ESPR) sets mandatory requirements for product design, including minimum repairability thresholds, spare parts availability obligations, and energy efficiency floors. For each product category, use hasCertification referencing the specific regulation number to signal compliance.

hasCertification for Ecodesign compliance signals

{
  "hasCertification": [
    {
      "@type": "Certification",
      "name": "EU Ecodesign Regulation (EU) 2022/1926 — Smartphones & Tablets",
      "issuedBy": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "European Commission",
        "url": "https://energy.ec.europa.eu"
      },
      "description": "Compliant with EU ecodesign requirements for smartphones including spare parts availability, repairability information, and battery replaceability"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Certification",
      "name": "Nordic Swan Ecolabel",
      "issuedBy": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "Nordic Ecolabelling Board",
        "url": "https://www.nordic-ecolabel.org"
      },
      "certificationIdentification": "XXXXX-YYYY"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Certification",
      "name": "EU Ecolabel",
      "issuedBy": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "European Commission",
        "url": "https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/circular-economy/eu-ecolabel_en"
      },
      "certificationIdentification": "DK-011-XXXX"
    }
  ]
}

sustainabilityFeature — Natural Language Sustainability Summary

Schema.org's sustainabilityFeature is a plain-text string on Product that captures sustainability characteristics in human-readable form. It complements the structured additionalProperty and hasCertification entries by providing the NLP surface that AI agents use to answer unstructured sustainability queries.

AI agents answering "most eco-friendly washing machine," "repairability-first smartphone," or "zero-plastic packaging electronics" are using natural language matching against sustainability claims. sustainabilityFeature is the correct place to put these claims — not the product description, which AI agents parse less reliably for structured sustainability signals.

sustainabilityFeature sentence patterns for EU Ecodesign

EU Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) — hasCertification

An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a third-party verified lifecycle assessment document published to a public EPD registry. EPDs quantify the environmental impact of a product across its lifecycle (manufacturing, use, end-of-life) in standardized categories: global warming potential (GWP), acidification, eutrophication, ozone depletion, and others.

EPDs are increasingly used by procurement AI agents handling B2B and institutional purchasing queries where carbon footprint documentation is required. Including the EPD registration number in structured data with a direct verification URL makes the claim programmatically verifiable — the same verification logic used for GIA diamond certificates applies here.

{
  "hasCertification": [
    {
      "@type": "Certification",
      "name": "Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) — ISO 14025 Verified",
      "issuedBy": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "International EPD System (Environdec)",
        "url": "https://www.environdec.com"
      },
      "certificationIdentification": "S-P-12345",
      "url": "https://www.environdec.com/library/epd-S-P-12345",
      "validFrom": "2024-03-01",
      "validUntil": "2029-02-28",
      "description": "Third-party verified EPD per ISO 14025 and EN 15804+A2. Global Warming Potential: 42 kg CO2e (cradle to gate)."
    }
  ],
  "additionalProperty": [
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Global Warming Potential (GWP)",
      "value": "42",
      "unitCode": "KGM",
      "description": "42 kg CO2e per functional unit (cradle to gate, ISO 14040/14044). Verified by EPD S-P-12345."
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "EPD Program Operator",
      "value": "International EPD System (Environdec)",
      "propertyID": "https://www.environdec.com"
    }
  ]
}

Dawn Liquid Snippet: Ecodesign JSON-LD from Metafields

Save as snippets/ecodesign-product-schema.liquid. Triggers for products tagged eu-ecodesign or repairability-index. Uses an eco.* metafield namespace.

{% comment %} ecodesign-product-schema.liquid — EU ecodesign + France repairability index schema {% endcomment %}
{% assign is_eco = false %}
{% if product.tags contains 'eu-ecodesign' or product.tags contains 'repairability-index' or product.tags contains 'eco-certified' %}
  {% assign is_eco = true %}
{% endif %}

{% if is_eco %}

{% assign repair_score      = product.metafields.eco.repairability_score %}
{% assign spare_years       = product.metafields.eco.spare_parts_years %}
{% assign software_years    = product.metafields.eco.software_support_years %}
{% assign recycled_plastic  = product.metafields.eco.recycled_plastic_pct %}
{% assign sustainability_ft = product.metafields.eco.sustainability_feature %}
{% assign eprel_number      = product.metafields.eco.eprel_number %}
{% assign epd_number        = product.metafields.eco.epd_number %}
{% assign epd_org           = product.metafields.eco.epd_org %}
{% assign ecodesign_reg     = product.metafields.eco.ecodesign_regulation %}
{% assign eu_ecolabel_num   = product.metafields.eco.eu_ecolabel_number %}
{% assign gwp_value         = product.metafields.eco.gwp_kg_co2e %}

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Product",
  "name": {{ product.title | json }},
  "description": {{ product.description | strip_html | truncatewords: 80 | json }},
  "url": "{{ shop.url }}{{ product.url }}",
  "sku": {{ product.selected_or_first_available_variant.sku | json }}
  {% if product.vendor != blank %}
  ,"brand": { "@type": "Brand", "name": {{ product.vendor | json }} }
  {% endif %}
  {% if sustainability_ft != blank %}
  ,"sustainabilityFeature": {{ sustainability_ft | json }}
  {% endif %}
  {% if eprel_number != blank or epd_number != blank or eu_ecolabel_num != blank or ecodesign_reg != blank %}
  ,"hasCertification": [
    {% assign cert_started = false %}
    {% if ecodesign_reg != blank %}
    {
      "@type": "Certification",
      "name": {{ "EU Ecodesign Regulation " | append: ecodesign_reg | append: " Compliance" | json }},
      "issuedBy": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "European Commission", "url": "https://energy.ec.europa.eu" }
    }
    {% assign cert_started = true %}
    {% endif %}
    {% if eu_ecolabel_num != blank %}
    {% if cert_started %},{% endif %}{
      "@type": "Certification",
      "name": "EU Ecolabel",
      "issuedBy": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "European Commission", "url": "https://environment.ec.europa.eu" },
      "certificationIdentification": {{ eu_ecolabel_num | json }}
    }
    {% assign cert_started = true %}
    {% endif %}
    {% if epd_number != blank %}
    {% if cert_started %},{% endif %}{
      "@type": "Certification",
      "name": "Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) — ISO 14025",
      "issuedBy": { "@type": "Organization", "name": {% if epd_org != blank %}{{ epd_org | json }}{% else %}"International EPD System"{% endif %} },
      "certificationIdentification": {{ epd_number | json }}
      {% if epd_number contains 'S-P' %}
      ,"url": {{ "https://www.environdec.com/library/epd-" | append: epd_number | json }}
      {% endif %}
    }
    {% assign cert_started = true %}
    {% endif %}
  ]
  {% endif %}
  ,"additionalProperty": [
    {% assign ap_started = false %}
    {% if repair_score != blank %}
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Repairability Index",
      "value": {{ repair_score | json }},
      "minValue": "0",
      "maxValue": "10",
      "propertyID": "https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/indice-reparabilite",
      "description": {{ "France indice de réparabilité: " | append: repair_score | append: "/10 (Decree No. 2020-1757)" | json }}
    }
    {% assign ap_started = true %}
    {% endif %}
    {% if spare_years != blank %}
    {% if ap_started %},{% endif %}{
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Spare Parts Availability",
      "value": {{ spare_years | json }},
      "unitCode": "ANN",
      "description": {{ spare_years | append: " years spare parts availability from purchase date" | json }}
    }
    {% assign ap_started = true %}
    {% endif %}
    {% if software_years != blank %}
    ,{
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Software Support Period",
      "value": {{ software_years | json }},
      "unitCode": "ANN",
      "description": {{ software_years | append: " years OS and security updates from product launch" | json }}
    }
    {% endif %}
    {% if recycled_plastic != blank %}
    ,{
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Post-Consumer Recycled Plastic Content",
      "value": {{ recycled_plastic | json }},
      "unitCode": "P1",
      "description": {{ recycled_plastic | append: "% of plastic components by weight are post-consumer recycled (PCR)" | json }}
    }
    {% endif %}
    {% if gwp_value != blank %}
    ,{
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "Global Warming Potential (GWP)",
      "value": {{ gwp_value | json }},
      "unitCode": "KGM",
      "description": {{ gwp_value | append: " kg CO2e per functional unit (cradle to gate)" | json }}
    }
    {% endif %}
    {% if eprel_number != blank %}
    ,{
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "EU EPREL Registration Number",
      "propertyID": "https://eprel.ec.europa.eu/",
      "value": {{ eprel_number | json }},
      "url": {{ "https://eprel.ec.europa.eu/qr/" | append: eprel_number | json }}
    }
    {% endif %}
  ]
  ,"offers": {
    "@type": "Offer",
    "price": {{ product.selected_or_first_available_variant.price | money_without_currency | json }},
    "priceCurrency": {{ cart.currency.iso_code | json }},
    "availability": {% if product.available %}"https://schema.org/InStock"{% else %}"https://schema.org/OutOfStock"{% endif %},
    "url": "{{ shop.url }}{{ product.url }}"
  }
}
</script>
{% endif %}

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