EU Will Require USB-C Phone Chargers by 2024 - In Compliance

The European Parliament has overwhelmingly adopted a connection by the Commission of the European Union (EU) that volition mandate the usage of USB-C charging ports successful smartphones, tablets, and different user electronics by 2024.

In a ballot earlier this month, the Parliament adopted the Commission’s proposal to amend EU Directive 2014/53/EU (also known arsenic the Radio Equipment Directive, oregon RED) to harmonize charging technologies by standardizing the usage of USB-C charging ports. The Commission’s connection would besides harmonize supported speeds of charging devices and unbundle the merchantability of chargers from the merchantability of physics devices.

The tally of the Parliament ballot was 602 votes successful favour of the Commission’s proposal, 13 against, and 8 abstentions. The connection present makes its mode to the EU Council for last approval, with work successful the Official Journal of the European Union to follow.

The Commission’s connection is reportedly portion of its wide effort to trim user inconvenience and physics discarded created by the usage of antithetic and incompatible charging technologies for physics devices. The Commission estimates that the mean user owns 3 mobile telephone chargers to guarantee reliable entree to compatible charging technologies, and that disposed chargers represent 11,000 metric tons of e-waste each year.

Read further accusation astir the Parliament’s enactment successful transportation with USB-C ports is disposable astatine the EU Parliament website.

Read the EU Commission’s archetypal proposal.