The thing is, people are flooding the market with cheap noisy crap anyway, distributed as any of hundreds of non-brands and shipped directly to the customer fro

The thing is, people are flooding the market with cheap noisy crap anyway, distributed as any of hundreds of non-brands and shipped directly to the customer from outside the regulatory area. Technically it falls upon customs to stop these from entering, but customs is not qualified to do compatibility testing. Personally I think the correct response would be a customer protection law that requires that manufacturers and vendors take back/replace problematic products, rather than forcing pre-certification and membership in predatory organizations on everyone. The current regulatory environment (particularly WEEE) is toxic to any kind of small-scale manufacture, not because of the specific requirements imposed, but because of the gigantic costs of complying with said requirements in a regulation-approved way.