Re: 20 year old tech...
@AC
"What's the advantage of breaking with requiring to adhere to minimum standards unless you intend on reducing them?"
Ahhh I see the mistake. The assumption you make is that the EU minimum standards are better. The problem with that is every country has its own standards (in the world) and a lot of conflicts in those standards. For developed countries we have different standards so the idea that by reducing from one set of standards automatically means 'worse' is not guaranteed by far.