Right to Repair

Can anyone confirm or deny whether a washing machine brand other than Beko puts kill switches in their machines? This seems to be relevant to anti-competition law. If they all do it, then it can perhaps be regarded as cartel behavior. If not all do it, then those who do can be regarded as making the competition unfair.

To be clear, I do not mean remote kill switches. I mean algorithmic. E.g. a fault occurs, the machine detects it, quits running, and shows an error code. That much is fair enough (to protect the machine from damage). The abuse comes when the maker refuses to share the reset procedure, ultimately blocking repair.