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Headphones supplied with smartphones are no longer required

2021-11-06T14:43:02.778Z


The bill aimed at reducing the digital environmental footprint was adopted by Parliament. It is the end of a French peculiarity. Smartphone manufacturers no longer have the obligation to provide headphones with the laptop. This is what Parliament decided to do, which this week adopted the bill by Senator LR de l'Ain, Patrick Chaize, incorporated into the bill “Reducing the environmental footprint of digital technology in France”. Read alsoWhat is the impact of digital technology on th


It is the end of a French peculiarity.

Smartphone manufacturers no longer have the obligation to provide headphones with the laptop.

This is what Parliament decided to do, which this week adopted the bill by Senator LR de l'Ain, Patrick Chaize, incorporated into the bill “Reducing the environmental footprint of digital technology in France”.

Read alsoWhat is the impact of digital technology on the environment?

Since 2010 and the Grenelle II law, smartphones could not “

be marketed without an accessory making it possible to limit the exposure of the head to radioelectric emissions during communications.

From now on, manufacturers will only have to "

ensure the availability of headphones compatible with the terminal model during its marketing period."

In other words, it's not the end of headphones, but manufacturers will no longer have the obligation to provide them with smartphones. The reason for this measure? It is ecological. "

Wired headphones, systematically supplied with smartphones, are a major source of waste, even though the market for better quality headphones and listening systems, whether wired or wireless, is expanding,

”explains Patrick Chaize to the site. Frandroid.

Read alsoDigital facing the environmental challenge

As for the health argument which justified the obligation to provide headphones until then, "

it could not justify this source of waste

". But the elected LR recalls that "

bodies of international expertise, such as the World Health Organization, have so far refuted the existence of a cause and effect link established between exposure to electromagnetic fields produced by cell phones and chronic pathologies

”. "

In any case, there is nothing to indicate that the free supply of headphones protects these intensive users more widely from the health risks identified.

Adds the senator.

Next step: publication of the bill in the Official Journal.

It remains to be seen whether the manufacturers who will no longer supply headphones will lower their prices.

Source: lefigaro

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