{"id":545447,"date":"2026-07-17T03:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/545447\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T03:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:37:10","slug":"daring-fireball-european-commission-adds-exemptions-for-watches-and-earbuds-to-portable-battery-removal-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/545447\/","title":{"rendered":"Daring Fireball: European Commission Adds Exemptions for Watches and Earbuds to Portable Battery Removal Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission adopted a <a href=\"https:\/\/environment.ec.europa.eu\/publications\/delegated-regulation-removability-and-replaceability-portable-batteries_en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">delegated act<\/a> today (14<br \/>\nJuly) introducing new rules that exempt additional products from<br \/>\nEU requirements on the removability and replaceability of portable<br \/>\nbatteries.<\/p>\n<p>Under the EU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/eli\/reg\/2023\/1542\/oj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Batteries Regulation<\/a>, portable batteries in<br \/>\nproducts sold in the EU must generally be removable and<br \/>\nreplaceable by consumers. This helps extend products\u2019 lifetime by<br \/>\nallowing battery replacements and supports recycling by making it<br \/>\neasier to collect used batteries. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Commission is now adding six new product categories to the<br \/>\nexisting list of exemptions. This includes wearable devices such<br \/>\nas smartwatches and fitness trackers, electric toys, and products<br \/>\nwithin the scope of the <a href=\"https:\/\/single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu\/sectors\/mechanical-engineering\/equipment-potentially-explosive-atmospheres-atex_en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATEX Directive<\/a> (equipment used in<br \/>\nexplosive atmospheres such as explosion-proof motors, sensors,<br \/>\npumps or forklift trucks).<\/p>\n<p>See, exemptions aren\u2019t hard, especially to stupid regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Commission adopted a delegated act today (14 July) introducing new rules that exempt additional products from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":["post-545447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}