So it looks set to start to bite towards the end of 2024 - when all mobile phones, tablets and cameras sold in the EU will have to be equipped with a USB Type-C charging port.Īfter that, there's a second deadline - of spring 2026 - when the obligation will extend to laptops. Once the Council has signed off, the directive will enter into force 20 days after publication in the EU's Official Journal and Member states will then have 12 months to transpose the rules - and 12 months after the transposition period ends to apply them. It still needs final approval by the Council - but that step is considered a formality given the provisional political agreement already reached between the co-legislators this summer. Parliamentarians also previously pushed to expand the common charger rules to include more types of portable consumer electronic devices (including laptops). MEPs have been pushing for the e-waste measure for over a decade so today's massively affirmative plenary vote - of 602 in favour of the directive and just 13 against (plus eight abstentions) - is hardly a shock. The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to back EU legislation that will standardize mobile chargers on USB Type-C - paving the way for the law to start being applied by the end of 2024.
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