Summary of Global Market Access Information in December 2024
On December 16th, 2024, the Committee of Member States (MSC) of ECHA decided to include the thirty-second batch of six evaluation substances (public comment time: August 30th, 2024-October 14th, 2024) in the list of candidate substances of SVHC, and it is planned to formally add them to the list of SVHC in January, 2025. By then, the list of substances controlled by SVHC will increase to 248.
On December 15th, 2023, the Canadian Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) issued RSS-102 Issue 6, namely \"Radio Frequency (RF) Exposure Compliance of Radio Communication Equipment (All Frequency Bands)\". RSS-102 is a standard specification for evaluating the radiation exposure compliance of wireless communication equipment in close use, which was enforced on December 15th, 2024. In other words, from December 15, 2024, ISED Canada will enforce the new version of the standard and only accept authentication applications based on RSS-102 Issue 6.
On December 6th, 2024, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment of California (OEHHA) published the revised text of California Regulation 65 in official website, which revised sections 25601, 25602, 25603 and 25607.2 of Title 27 of California Regulation, and added new sections 25607.50 to 25607.53. This amendment will take effect on January 1, 2025 and be enforced on January 1, 2028.
On December 10th, 2024, official website, the European Union, released the latest development, announcing the abandonment of the proposal to add medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs) and tetrabromobisphenol A(TBBP-A) in RoHS Directive (2011/65/EU), which means that the manufacturers of related electronic and electrical products do not need to make compliance adjustment for the time being.
On December 4th, 2024, CEN of european committee for standardization issued the toy safety standard EN 71-3:2019+A2:2024 \"Toy Safety-Part 3: Migration of Specific Elements\", which will replace the existing version EN 71-3 2019+A1:2021 and is expected to take effect on June 30th, 2025.
In November 2024, the European Commission officially published a new draft Commission regulation, which stipulated the ecological design requirements of external power supply, wireless charger, wireless charging pad, universal portable battery charger and USB Type-C cable. The new regulation is based on the Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and Council, and will replace the existing Commission Regulation (EC)2019/1782 on the ecological design requirements of external power supply.
Pay attention! The EU USB Type-C interface/PD protocol regulation EN IEC 62680 will be enforced from December 28th, 2024
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