Turns out there aren't any requirements in the Netherlands, just 'advice'. Regarding the EU and costs : no-one there cares about cost. They just pass them on to taxpayers.
They absolutely do care about stuff where ordinary people can save money, thanks to the EU we got a hard cap on CC fees (0.3%!) and free phone roaming EU-wide, for example.
Providing a basic computer software environment would save a lot of money for the population and especially it would also massively reduce electronic waste and lock-in effects. Windows 11 for example won't run on machines without TPMs enabled [1].
[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enable-tpm-2-0-o...