BELGIUM: EU guidelines requiring all new smartphones, tablets and cameras to make use of the identical charger got here into pressure on Saturday (Dec 28), in a change Brussels stated will minimize prices and waste.
Producers are actually obliged to suit gadgets bought within the 27-nation bloc with a USB-C, the port chosen by the European Union because the widespread commonplace for charging digital instruments.
“Beginning at the moment, all new cell phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, audio system, keyboards and plenty of different electronics bought within the EU must be outfitted with a USB Kind-C charging port,” the EU Parliament wrote on social media X.
