Yes, I am aware that probably at this time you experience a certain feeling deja vu, and the point is that we have been talking for a long time, years in fact, about the slow but relentless process of the European Commission in approving the long-awaited unified charger standard. A rule that would undoubtedly have been much more practical many years ago, when practically every manufacturer had its own charger model (some even had more), but which today also makes a lot of sense, and therefore every reason to be.

I’m saying you’ll feel like you’ve experienced it before, because in early June, as we told you, there was what we might define as an informal approval of the Single Charger Regulation, which was one of the last stepsa process that was already very advanced and which stipulates that USB-C will be the only charger not only for smartphones, but also for tablets, e-readers, headphones, digital cameras (meaning both still and video), headphones, consoles, laptops and speakers.

As we told you at the time, formal approval was awaited after the summer, which was just a process that was taken for granted to continue, but was nevertheless necessary as part of the regulatory process. And the good news is that, as we can read on the news website of the European Parliament, today is the long-awaited day finally and formally the European Parliament has approved that USB-C will be the only charger of small facilities throughout Europe.

This way, now with all the paperwork We just have to wait for this new standard to be published in the Official Journal of the European Union, a procedure similar to that which must be carried out in Spain with publication in the BOE in order to legally bury the application of a new law, measure or any other matter. Once the single charger rule is published, 20 days will have to pass before it goes into effect. However, since then 24 months will have to pass until compliance becomes mandatory, as this is the period the European Union gives manufacturers to adapt.

Although this standard is limited to a few types of devices, many people associate it mainly with smartphones, and although it is addressed in this sense to all models of all manufacturers, it is not necessary to be very clever to realize that Apple is undoubtedly the main victim of this regulatory change, which is not for nothing that the company has been putting up as much resistance as possible for years. Now, and only in the absence of the publication of a new standard in the Official Journal of the European Union, you will have no choice but to switch to USB-C… unless, to avoid this, you decide to charge your devices exclusively wirelessly.