in the effort of improving resource efficiency the consumers are important actors the consumer is crucial in improving resource efficiency during the use phase such as printing doublesided maintaining the windows to extend their life span and upgrading their existing products instead of buying new ones therefore requirements on consumer information on resource efficiency are important requirements to include in future im in the ecodesign directive further consumer information is also an issue emphasised in the framework ecodesign directive therefore this section will shortly elaborate on three addition categories including priority resources and critical metals dematerialisation and system thinking