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In South Korea, the use of hazardous substances in electronic and electrical products is restricted by the so-called Korea RoHS document. It is the Act on Resource Circulation of Electrical and Electronic Equipment and Vehicles that was amended by the Enforcement Decree and approved on November 2020. The amendments concern regulatory scope and extend the […]
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In November 2020, Saudi Arabia announced a draft version of the RoHS Regulations (Regulations on Restriction of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment), which was notified by WTO / TBT report. After soliciting public comments on the draft, it is expected that the official version of the rules will be issued, and usually a […]
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South Korea Released a Draft Decree Including Additional Electronic Products and Hazardous Substances to their Local Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS). The Ministry of Environment of Korea released the “Revision of the Enforcement Decree of the Act on Resource Circulation of Electrical and Electronic and Vehicles.” This legislation increases the number of electrical and electronic […]
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China Quality Certification Centre (hereinafter referred to as CQC) notified on the revision of CQC21-020304-2011 “RoHS Certification Rules” and its enclosures.The CQC notes in the announcement that there are three main aspects that were revised within the certification rules: 1.Concerns the name of Chinese RoHS regulations. 2.Detection methods for the four phthalates and hexavalent chromium. […]
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The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of Oman is going to implement new Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) requirements. Thus, new radio and telecommunications terminal equipment that is subject to the type-approval procedure will also have to show its compliance with RoHS requirements. The RoHS mark requirements are based on the EU Directive 2017/2102 that amends […]
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The European Commission published the Decision (EU) 2020/6591 to adopt EN IEC 63000:2018 for RoHS Directive. This standard provides guidance to the technical documentation for the assessment of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE). The previous standard EN 50581:2012 will be withdrawn by 18 November 2021. EEE complies with the harmonized standard shall be presumed to demonstrate […]
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Starting from March 1, 2020, requirements of the EAEU TR 037/2016 On Restriction of the use of Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic products became mandatory in the EAEU certification. In order to access the market of EAEU certification the following categories of products must be free from the above-mentioned substances : Electrical apparatuses and appliances for […]
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The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic informs on another amendment of the Decree No. 481/2012 “On the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment”. The Regulation was issued to implement the provisions of the series of EU Directives with regards to the exemption from the restriction […]
Read More >>The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) consists of the following countries: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. The new regulation EAEU TR 037/2016 ban the use of the same 6 substances (lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers) as in the first EU regulation. EAEU TR 037/2016 opens up for using 2 […]
Read More >>Electrical and radio-electronic products that are marketed to the Eurasian Economic Union market must meet the requirements of the Technical Regulation EAEU TR 037/2016. This document came into force on March 1, 2018 and regulates the content of hazardous substances in electrotechnical equipment. What you need to know: Companies that have an existing EAC Mark […]
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