The European Union has given phone manufacturers a deadline of 28th December to adopt a common charging cable.
A report presented to the EU commission in 2019 says 84 percent of phone users or electronic consumers experienced difficulties with their charging systems in the past two years
This pushed the EU parliament to consider a legislation to regulate the industry.
This legislation has been in different formative stages for more than 10 years.
The EU parliament finally made the legislation that include mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, headsets, handheld videogame consoles, portable speakers, e-readers, keyboards, mice, earbuds and portable navigation devices.
The legislation would extend to laptops 40 months after its implementation.
This legislation is set to reduce the burden of users having to purchase multiple charges to different devices.
This legislation is also an effort to reduce wastes in charger duplication.
Report from the EU parliament also says some technology companies tried to implement the directive but their efforts couldn’t meet the expectation of the commission.
The agreement was reached on 7th June 2022 but was formally approved by parliament on October 4th 2022.
All EU countries have about 2 years to implement the legislation form the EU into their national laws.
