This is not voted on by Parliament but Parliament could object to it. Under Article 290 TFEU, delegated acts may supplement or amend non-essential elements of a legislative act. The original legislation must define the objectives, scope, content and duration of the delegation. Parliament and the Council retain control: they may revoke the delegation or object to an individual delegated act. Here we have the Commission using a delegated act, an administrative measure, to amend the European law, without meeting the prerequisites:

"Such delegated acts shall be adopted only on account of market developments and technical and scientific progress, and provided that there are scientifically grounded concerns over the safety of end-users removing or replacing the portable battery, or in cases where there is a risk that the removal or the replacement of the battery by end-users would be in violation of any product safety requirements provided for by applicable Union law."

This is a shady legal base for the current action, so this would blow up if scrutinised by Parliament or Council. Furthermore, there is really no point of communicating to trading partners in the way that it has been done, which casts a very bad light.

Kent Walker does not appear to know how to speak to European Commission authorities. This is so rude and disrespectful.

I wish the European Union would take similar action. Mario Draghi claimed he wanted to solve the issue 20 years ago. Time to revisit it.

https://competition-policy.ec....

Anyway, the task would be to make AutoCad obsolete and this requires substantial investment.

It looks more like a temporary issue, better work on compliance before the law comes back. After all the commission does not decide things:

Here is the legal base:
"The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 89 to amend paragraph 2 of this Article by adding further products to be exempted from the removability and replaceability requirements laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article. Such delegated acts shall be adopted only on account of market developments and technical and scientific progress, and provided that there are scientifically grounded concerns over the safety of end-users removing or replacing the portable battery, or in cases where there is a risk that the removal or the replacement of the battery by end-users would be in violation of any product safety requirements provided for by applicable Union law."

I don't think this condition for the delegated act is met.

It is also offensive that the EC informs the WTO TBT but not the European Parliament.

So how do we clean Copilot from windows computers and gemini from our android phone?

The fact that amino acids and other chemicals used by earth based biology can form fairly readily has been known since the Miller-Urey experiment in the 1950s, this isn't news. The problem is there's a big gap between biologically active chemicals and biology itself, specifically a molecule that can replicate, evolve will a surrounding framework of chemistry. We don't yet know if THAT can spontaniously evolve anywhere or needs to very particular conditions that happened to exist on earth after it formed.

Nothing happened to The Times. It's the best selling broadsheet in the UK and is far from being a right wing tabloid. Perhaps try reading it sometime instead of spouting some 3rd hand BS you saw on reddit.

I didnt find canada diverse when I've visited, not compared to europe. So Quebecens speak french, bfd, it's not Martian ffs and it's a lot nicer sounding language than spanish with it's annoying babbling cadence and nasal vowels.

Typo: should read 150 million cubic feet

Yet 150 cubic feet of gas per day will be burnt to run a datacentre to so what.... generate more AI slop and scan images in order to stroke Fuckerbergs ego and reduce what little privacy there is online that little bit more?

Autocad comes to my mind.

Companies violate antitrust law and then can sit it out in court. Only the lawyers win.

Its an x86 mini. Given its run from the shell I doubt terminal permissions come into it.