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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3515884" data-attributes="member: 109211">Here is how it has been explained to me. The EU in its wisdom requires that warranties be supported by spare parts made to the same specification as the parts originally used for manufacturing the product. This sounds fine but it has had an unintended consequence and that is that the manufacturers can't use improved components and have to keep a stock of components that are no longer used for production. In binocular terms this means keeping stocks of lenses and prisms for example with outdate coatings or profiles. So in Europe manufacturers are not inclined to sink cash into piles of components that can only be used if a warranty claim requires it. Hence we get 10 years while other territories get 30 years or lifetimes.Lee</blockquote>