.....20 minutes since I posted, and the constabulary haven't got here with the handcuffs yet!
Not only does this make using the Empeg theoretically illegal, but also car and hi-fi products from both mass market and niche manufacturers, Sony, Alpine etc.
European Hi-Fi manufacturers are still smarting under the loopy EU directive that says that they have to contribute towards the safe disposal of their products, a tax that can't be applied to far- eastern manufacturers.
More pertinently video products like Rupert Murdoch's Sky Plus box (Similar to Tivo), which presumably has equivalents in other European Countries, are similarly illegal, as are humble video and DVD recorders.

- excuse me a second whilst I throw my box of audio cassettes out of the window!

This is a classic case of the EU not thinking things through in thousands of pages in loads of languages at my, the taxpayer's expense.

I'll dash a letter of to Rupert tonight, in case he hasn't heard!