Regulation and Compliance updates

On April 20, 2018, Oeko-Institut launched a stakeholder consultation on seven substances being evaluated to review and amend the list of restricted substances in RoHS Annex II under the project (Pack 15) The substances under review include: Cobalt SaltsNickel Sulphate and Nickel SulfamateIndium Phosphide Beryllium and…

On Mar 11, 2020, The United States Environmental Protection Agency ” EPA” updated TSCA Inventory. This update adds 81 new chemicals, and the Inventory now contains 86,405 chemicals of which 41,484 are active in U.S commerce. EPA states that this biannual update to the public…

Today, The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has added four new substances to the Candidate List for the REACH regulation. ECHA has added three new substances to the Candidate List due to their toxicity to reproduction and a fourth due to a combination of other properties…

  On May 16, 2019 the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) published a joint statement on the reform of the China RoHS System known as the “Arrangement for Implementing the Conformity Assessment System of the…

Read Now!Two new RoHS Exemptions Have Been Published On 5 November 5, 2019, The European Union has added exemptions, 43 for Bis(2-Ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and 44 for lead.Please see the below Annex III for additional details.    This was officially published in the Official Journal of the European Union,…

The Cobalt Reporting Template is a free, standardized reporting template developed by the Responsible Minerals Initiative to identify choke points and collect due diligence information in the cobalt supply chain. CRT 2.0 is available for download Here. For a list of currently identified Cobalt Refiners, Click Here….

Waste Framework Directive Compels Need for New SCIP Database On September 9, 2019, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) published new information requirements for articles with high-interest material (SVHCs) which will be published in a forthcoming database that will be referred to as the SCIP database. …

On March 31, 2015, the EU Commission amended the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU by adding 4 new phthalates to the list of restricted substances in Annex II.  These substances, DEHP, BBP, DBP, and DI PB will be restricted in the use of electrical and electronic equipment…