New Smartphone Labels For Battery Life and Repairability Are Coming To the EU (theverge.com)
(Thursday April 24, 2025 @11:22AM (msmash)
from the up-next dept.)
- Reference: 0177123415
- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/1521224/new-smartphone-labels-for-battery-life-and-repairability-are-coming-to-the-eu
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/655275/smartphone-tablet-labels-eu-energy-efficiency-battery-life-repairability
The European Union has announced details of new mandatory labels for smartphones and tablets sold in the bloc, which include [1]ratings for energy efficiency, durability, and repairability . From a report:
> Hardware will also have to meet new "ecodesign requirements" to be sold in the EU, including a requirement to make spare parts available for repair.
>
> The labels, which will be required for any devices that go on sale from June 20th onwards, are similar to existing ones for home appliances and TVs. They display the product's energy efficiency rating, on a scale from A to G, along with battery life, the number of charge cycles the battery is rated for, letter grades for durability and repairability, and any applicable IP rating for protection from dust and water.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/655275/smartphone-tablet-labels-eu-energy-efficiency-battery-life-repairability
> Hardware will also have to meet new "ecodesign requirements" to be sold in the EU, including a requirement to make spare parts available for repair.
>
> The labels, which will be required for any devices that go on sale from June 20th onwards, are similar to existing ones for home appliances and TVs. They display the product's energy efficiency rating, on a scale from A to G, along with battery life, the number of charge cycles the battery is rated for, letter grades for durability and repairability, and any applicable IP rating for protection from dust and water.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/655275/smartphone-tablet-labels-eu-energy-efficiency-battery-life-repairability
Repairability class.. (Score:2)
by luvirini ( 753157 )
...nice.
Given the trend towards worse and worse repairability in devices like phones it is nice seeing at least some progress of combatting that from the officials. It is intreseting to see how watered down it will be in actuality.
The critical sparepart availability is a nice idea, but given how companies have been practicing for evastions on this, I expect a lot of difficulty actually making companies make those parts available at reasonable prices, until there is a requirement to allow third party parts
Ecodesign requirements (Score:1)
The full requirements from EU's official site: [1]https://energy-efficient-produ... [europa.eu]
[1] https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en