TL;DR

  • The European Council has ended its adoption procedure for rules related to phones with replaceable batteries.
  • By 2027, all phones released in the EU must have a battery the user can easily replace with no tools or expertise.
  • The regulation intends to introduce a circular economy for batteries.
  • sunbunman@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    And they know people are going to be importing these smartphones once it goes live and it’s not a battle that can be fought.

    • alectrem@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      The company Fairphone makes almost perfectly repairable smartphones, but they’re only for the European market and the radios won’t really work in the US. I think it would be a similar case for a lot of phones so it might not actually be super viable to import phones in the future either, unfortunately.