[JJzD]

The EU is about the internal market, but having an internal market means it's about standards. There should be no technical difference between products from Denmark or Spain.

These rules are developed by the commision, but approved by national governments, which are then 'translated' into national laws.

In some areas the rules are very specific and detailed (eg chemicals) but in others the national governments are still in control (like protected titles such as baristers).

In the end is the motivation money. If you think your usb-c chargers are better than other countries, you would like to force apple to move to USB-C chargers. So it's a big economical incentive, and having countries on board like Germany, Scandinavia or the netherlands, makes the EU more suspicious of large companies, it's in their culture ;).

US has a more liberal policy where they make mistakes very costly, if you can succesfully bring a claim to the responsible party. The european mindset just tries to forbid things (Things aren't allowed if they aren't proven safe, instead of only things proven unsafe being forbidden)

[jollybean]

The products in Denmark and Spain are already 'the same' with respect to chargers.

The standards don't vary across the region on this issue.

"If you think your usb-c chargers are better than other countries, you would like to force apple to move to USB-C chargers."

This is definitely not it. There is no secret cabal of 'cable margin corporations' pushing for this legislation to tilt the power in the EU.

This is just the EU legislators thinking about what is right in front of their faces and thinking of legislating about it.

There might be some opportunity there, but probably not.

If someone wanted to help, they could figure out how to recycle them properly,