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The wait is finally over. From 2024, USB-C will be the common standard for electronic devices in the EU – and we have already seen the impact!
It means
🔌The same charger for all phones, tablets and cameras
⚡ Harmonised fast-charging technology
🔄Reduced e-waste
One charger to rule them all.
Now, a reality.
Learn more about the #EUCommonCharger here: europa.eu/!hwjj3G
The EU common charger
The common charging solution promotes the use of common chargers for mobile phones and other portable electronic devices.Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
🔴This year marks the 30th anniversary of EU’s #SingleMarket, and we launch a new report to expose how corporate interests use it to block or undermine progressive legislation at the national and municipal level
👉 Here: corporateeurope.org/en/2023/06…
30 Years of EU Single Market
Our new report exposes how corporations have used the EU Single Market to obstruct progressive legislation like social housing measures, progressive healthcare reforms, protection from harmful substances as well bans on short-distance flights.corporateeurope.org
🔴 Our new report “30 Years of EU Single Market" shows:
1️⃣ The EU Commission receives on average about 400 corporate complaints about alleged violations of #SingleMarket law each year.
2️⃣ Corporate interests trigger the EU Commission into initiating investigations, which can evolve into infringement procedures, which deal with potential breaches of Single Market legislation. The EU Commission not only welcomes, but sometimes even solicits these complaints.
We have a deal on the common charger! 🇪🇺
This means more savings for EU consumers and less waste for the planet:
🔌 mobile phones, tablets, cameras… will all use USB type C
🔌 harmonised fast-charging technology
🔌 unbundling of sale of chargers