"‘We’re out of step’: how post-Brexit UK is drifting from EU standards"
Same standards as the EU, but a whole new testing regime with associated bureaucracy, and crippling additional costs.
@freequaybuoy @hesgen We had a weak Prime Minister, and Putin saw his opportunity.
@hesgen But you do not have the same standards as the EU any more.
E.g. my new monitor, has a different electricity usage shown on the EU sticker versus the UK sticker, despite that the stickers look very similar. 37kWh UK versus 40kWh EU per 1000h
The point is, the UK has roughly the same standards (there are other reasons, e.g. when goods based on the 27 MS standards are legal, 2020 the UK standard stopped being an EU standard.) the EU had in 2020, and then it started to diverge.
@hesgen Which is probably easy to explain, the A-G energy classification has been redone in the past years here in the EU for many categories, to be stricter, so goods need to be "greener" to get a good grade.
But as this never happens overnight in the EU, HMG did have the legislation/rules changes before 2020 supplied to them, so if they wanted, they could have updated the UK label rules too.
But they let them diverge. (Honi soit, qui mal y pense 🤷 )
@yacc143 For electronics, the UKCA mark is being abandoned, and the English government has said it will follow EU standards, recognising only the CE mark.
@hesgen Sure, but the energy label is yet another requirement.
And it looks, at least to me that dear HMG did not apply the newest updates coming out of Brussels, thus e.g. my new Lenovo monitor comes with to energy use labels, one for the EU and one for the UK.
And funnily, on this side of the Channel, but also in Ireland, it uses about 8% more electricity.
Guess you have the world's best electrons too?
@yacc143 The electron was theorised and discovered by Englishmen, dontchaknow.
@hesgen Jokes aside,
the EEA is sometimes "memed" as a fax democracy, as the EEA countries basically have to legislate what Brussels decide.
BUT at least the rules are basically clear, and figuratively speaking, they get the fax as a help.
HMG does not want to follow Brussels lead, even where it would make sense, and they don't get the cheat sheets from Brussels either.
@hesgen It becomes increasingly clear that Brexit was promoted significantly by groups who wanted to harm UK and EU. Putin’s most successful foreign policy initiative.