[akerro]

By the police.

>Where do you imagine these devices are made / manufactured?

It doesn't matter. If Chinese, Thai, US, Spanic or Russian company wants to sell their device in Europe they have to comply to CEER (Council of European Energy Regulators) regulations, we need similar regulating body for software. Since we have lamps and phone chargers that don't blow power sockets and don't burn houses, we need software that doesn't blow Internet and burn cables.

[Cthulhu_]

Are you sure about that last claim? There's a huge load of substandard, fake or not certified electrics coming in, also thanks to big online webshops that send directly to consumers. And the consumers don't care, they have a basic expectation of quality and no idea of things like electrical safety, fire risks or RF emissions.

[akerro]

I read recently that a guy in Poland had his Bitcoin miners Antminers worth 100k USD confiscated at the border check because it was not certified, it didn't have CEER labels: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

[StudentStuff]

Yeah, but its akin to banning drugs through the mail. Unless we open and inspect everything mailed into a country (which would be a massive make work program of the likes we've rarely seen), you can't stop it all. AliExpress, Deal Extreme and eBay are going to keep selling goods with fake CE and UL labels that are substandard, despite regulations to the contrary.

If your country does need a make work program, hiring many postal inspectors wouldn't be the worst make work program yet. I think the TSA wins that :P

[akerro]

Sure, you can't stop all of them, but stopping 96% would be enough.

[StudentStuff]

Your never going to get into the high double digits, as is most postal services have a pitiful catch rate for drugs, expanding that to cover electronics doesn't mean that catch rate will magically improve.