The regulation already mandates an OS upgrade period, but the period depends on how long the manufacturer keeps selling the model: software updates must be provided for five years from the day when the manufacturer stops selling the product. From Annex II B, section 1.2:

> (6) Operating system updates:

> (a) from the date of end of placement on the market to at least 5 years after that date, manufacturers, importers or authorised representatives shall, if they provide security updates, corrective updates or functionality updates to an operating system, make such updates available at no cost for all units of a product model with the same operating system;

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1670/oj

There's some weasel wording there ("if they provide ..."), so I'm curious how the courts are going to interpret that clause.

> There's some weasel wording there ("if they provide ..."), so I'm curious how the courts are going to interpret that clause.

Motorola already seems to be testing this interpretation of the law.

https://www.androidauthority.com/motorola-eu-software-update...