I don't think there's any kind of code for used stuff here, or at least nobody knows and it's not enforced.
Years ago I posted pictures of a table lamp here...
I got it at a flea market and the plug was falling apart, hot wires were sticking out of the plug and the socket was a US ES26. Besides I think SPT-1 zip cord isn't quite legal around here...
At another flea market I got a nasty shock off a record player (never managed to find the fault though, got the player for free afterwards).
So, since that kettle actually had a Schuko plug on it _nobody_ would have cared.
At the very same flea market I saw a slide projector missing all the guts, live wiring dangling loosely inside the fiberboard (=wood) casing, most likely shortening... flea markets are basically outlaw space, like middle eastern bazars.
As a slightly blasphemic German proverb says... help yourself, then God will help you!
(Note: applied to everyday problems I don't even consider it blasphemic - if there is some superior entity like God it's definitely not to be bothered with small problems)
