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 minimize prices and waste.
Producers are actually obliged to suit units offered 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 right this moment, all new cell phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, audio system, keyboards and lots 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.
