It is a project that may please many European consumers who own at least one smartphone or tablet: Brussels is preparing a draft European directive providing for requiring manufacturers around the world to equip all their devices with a charger. unique.
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According to our daily colleagues The echoes, the European Union could thus impose on all manufacturers of rechargeable electronic devices the presence of at least one USB-C port, the latest standard in terms of data and energy transfer, by 2024 .
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The same socket for smartphones, tablets, headsets …
Brussels therefore plans to adopt this draft directive in the first half of 2022. It could concern smartphones and tablets, of course, but also headphones, cameras or even musical speakers. The main objective of Brussels is mainly to make all chargers available on the market interchangeable depending on the type of device owned.
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In addition, as chargers pile up in drawers in consumers as new models come onto the market, the EU also wants to suspend the automatic sale of chargers with a new device, all in an environmental logic of reduction electronic waste.
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Apple is resisting
If today, the largest manufacturer of smartphones – Samsung – has already adapted to this standard, this is not the case of the American giant Apple. The apple brand has in fact always favored its in-house technology: lightning. All while arguing that a single charger “Stifles innovation rather than encouraging it” all in “Harming consumers”, according to our colleagues.
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