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The European Parliament (EP) just voted 582 to 40 to require one standard for chargers for all mobile phones. The EP cited the goals of reducing both frustration and electronic waste. The next step would be for the European Commission to draft a law and vote on it in July. Currently most of the industry uses micro-USB and is slowly adopting USB-C, however there are also phones using other connectors.
From the European Parliament resolution on a common charger for mobile radio equipment (2019/2983(RSP)):
1. Strongly stresses that there is an urgent need for EU regulatory action to reduce electronic waste, empower consumers to make sustainable choices, and allow them to fully participate in an efficient and well-functioning internal market;
2. Calls on the Commission to present and publish without further delay the results of the impact assessment on the introduction of a common charger for mobile telephones and other compatible devices with a view to proposing mandatory provisions;
3. Emphasises the need for a standard for a common charger for mobile radio equipment to be adopted as a matter of urgency in order to avoid further internal market fragmentation;
4. Calls, therefore, on the Commission to take action to introduce the common charger without any further delay by adopting the delegated act supplementing Directive 2014/53/EU on radio equipment defining a standard for a common charger for mobile phones and other small and medium-sized radio equipment by July 2020, or, if necessary, by adopting a legislative measure by July 2020 at the latest;
Earlier on SN:
The Dream Of A Common Charger Is Alive, Despite Apple's Complaining (2020)
European MEPs Back Single Charger Standard (2014)
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday February 02 2020, @04:02PM
This seems 15 years late to me, and like we went to the brink of civil war and economic catastrophe, billions spent on legal fees, so that we can decide that there must be a single cell phone charger design in just europe. (that the rest of the world will then adapt because everyone besides corporate dickwads https://archive.is/2MFbn [archive.is] knows this is an obviously good idea)
And we wonder why everything else is falling apart. Or maybe you do.
I am surprised actually this is not going backwards, and that we are not getting rid of the pesky metric and standard systems both, and removing all standards for everything, like the republican gimps are doing at the behest of their israeli death cult doms, or whoever they really are way up there.
thesesystemsarefailing.net
https://archive.is/ws6XQ [archive.is] (the dialectic of our time, this debacle fits perfectly into the left side of the picture, and the establishment of standards fits well onto the right side, and you will notice that everything in the news today fits right in as well)
p.s. the colbert report accepts soda stream advertising from genocidal settlment territory in a country that murders civilian protestors and exports tyranny all over the world, so goodbye Colbert, it was kindof good, but now enjoy the left hand side of the chart, and sadly you revealed the price of your soul. A sodastream advertisement for an idiotic richistan product no one needs whatsoever, you might as well be drinking blood or torturing children for your mealticket at this point.)