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Re:EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from... by pona-a on Thursday April 24, 2025 @09:32AM (#43782524)
Most regulations are motivated by universal normative prescriptions. People don't want to be served asbestos in their food, structurally unsound homes being built, or data brokers conspiring to raise your insurance, regardless of the violator in question.

Everyone can agree regulation burden exists, but I too often see it invoked in bad faith, like in the case of GDPR. This primes me to ask for concrete proof why any regulation would be especially burdensome for small business.

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Re:EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from... by pjc50 on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:58AM (#43783635)
Sibling provides an example: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/product-requirements/r...

If you want to market small circuit boards from the EU into the EU, you need to register in all EU countries. It's not 100% clear whether the requirement is incurred at "making available for sale in country X" (ie as soon as you put it on the website) or at the point you make your first sale.

This is on top of trying to untangle what CE marking testing may be required.

On the other hand, if you're a Chinese small board vendor, you just advertise it on AliExpress, put it in the (subsidized!) small parcel post, and ignore the EU rules.

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