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