[criddell]

Somebody pointed me to the latest version of the act and it does have the 80% after 1000 charges text.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

This is the text:

> the battery endurance in cycles achieves a minimum of 1 000 full charge cycles and after 1 000 full charge cycles the battery has, in a fully charged state, a remaining capacity of at least 80 % of the rated capacity;

[protimewaster]

Another user pointed out that there are actually two sets of rules. There's a general one that doesn't have the exemptions, and a tablet and phone specific one that does.

It's not clear to me which takes precedence, though, as it sounds like the wording of the phone and tablet-specific rules leaves open the possibility that it can be made more strict by other sets of rules.