Saudi Arabia Unifying the Charging Ports in the Kingdom！

The Saudi Standardization, Metrology, and Quality Administration and the Communications,Aerospace, and Technology Administration have announced the mandatory phase ofstandardization of charging ports for mobile phones and electronic devices in the Saudi market with plans starting from 2025. Require companies and suppliers to standardize the shipping point type to "USB Type-C" in accordance with the technical and administrative requirements specified in technical regulations and relevant standards and specifications, in order to improve the userexperience in Saudi Arabia Provide technology for transporting and transmitting high-quality data without additional costs to them, and support environmental sustainability principles by reducing the amount of electronic waste.

These two institutions emphasize that this decision will help reduce the annual consumption of mobile phone and electronic device chargers and chargers in China by more than 2.2 million units, and help save Saudi consumers expenses. In addition to achieving Saudi Arabia's sustainable development goals in the field of technology by reducing approximately 15 tons of electronic waste annually, Saudi Arabia will also exceed 170 million Riyals per year.

These two institutions stated that the enforcement will be carried out in two stages, with the first stage starting from January 1, 2025, including mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, e-readers, and game consoles. Portable video, headphones, headphones, speakers, keyboards, computer pointer devices, as well as portable navigation systems, portable speakers and wireless routers. The second phase will start on April 1, 2026 including laptops.

These two institutions stated that the decision includes an obligation to support. According to the detailed information mentioned in relevant technical regulations and standard specifications, the decision also includes the function of connecting full power through the Fast Charging Protocol (USB PD) through a USB port in the above-mentioned devices, regardless of thecharging device Instructions need to be provided on the device to increase user awareness, including labels, charger availability instructions, and supported minimum and maximum powerinformation.

It is worth noting that this decision belongs to the regulatory role of two institutions in the Saudi electronic equipment market. In addition, these two institutions protect users by improving thequality of technological products and contribute to achieving sustainable development goals by: Reduce the amount of electronic waste in response to changes in the largest global market in thefields of communication and technology.

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