On Monday 13 October, the European Commission revised the ecodesign requirements applicable to external chargers (external power supplies), more than 400 million of which are sold in the EU every year. These will have to comply with “more stringent efficiency and the introduction of interoperability and durability requirements”.
In order to reduce the energy and environmental footprint associated with manufacture and use, all USB chargers on the EU market will, for example, have to be...