Re: EI mew ;abeling regulations June 20th 2025

On 2025-01-03 10:08, Scott wrote:

On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 10:04:03 +0000, Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid>
wrote:
 

On 2025-01-03 09:47, Scott wrote:

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On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 00:09:11 -0500, Isaac Montara
<IsaacMontara@nospam.com> wrote:

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Anyone know how existing & new Google, Samsung & Apple phones are faring?
https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en
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1. Resistance to accidental drops or scratches
    & protection from dust & water
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2. Sufficiently durable batteries which can withstand
    at least 800 charge and discharge cycles
    while retaining at least 80% of their initial capacity
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3. Rules on disassembly and repair, including obligations
    for producers to make critical spare parts available
    within 5-10 working days, and for 7 years after
    the end of sales of the product model on the EU market
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4. Availability of operating system upgrades for longer periods
    (at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on
    the market of the last unit of a product model)
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5. Non-discriminatory access for professional repairers
    to any software or firmware needed for the replacement

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Will these regulations apply in the UK?

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As you have had explained to you at least twice before, they will become
a de facto standard, because it won't be worth the cost to the
manufacturers to produce a substantially different model for every
different market; on the contrary they will try and keep as much as
possible of every product the same world-wide.

 Evidently it is not quite as simple as that. In another thread it is
explained that Apple have withdrawn phones with lightning connectors
from the EU market and continue to sell them in the UK.

I haven't seen that other thread, but they may well be offloading old stock pending newer models.  Eventually market forces can be expected to prevail.

I take your
point going forward about the de facto standard, but my question was
whether the new regs would apply de jure.

Well obviously not as stated in the OP, because since Brexit we're no longer bound by that legal system, otherwise Apple would not be selling phones with lightning connectors here as claimed above.  HMG would have to bring in legislation of its own mirroring that of the EU, and I would have thought if they were doing so we would have seen something about it by now.
Mind, I've lost access to the BBC News RSS feeds, including the Technology news feed, because the supplier of the translation script  - that enabled me to create on my PCs a web page summarising them  -  has discontinued the service, so, as I've not had time to write my own, I've not been keeping so well up to date for about three or four months now.
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