On February 17, 2023, the European Chemicals Administration (ECHA) announced the public review of two SVHC candidate list of intended substances. The review period will end on April 3, 2023, during which all stakeholders can submit their comments to ECHA. The reviewed substances will be added to the official list of SVHC and become the 29th batch of SVHC substances.

According to the email received by Amazon sellers recently, Amazon Europe has new requirements for energy efficiency labels. Amazon requires sellers to upload energy efficiency labels and product information before March 3, 2023, otherwise the products will be removed.

Recently, Taiwan NCC issued a notice according to the 1112502 proposal, requiring RF equipment applicants to provide more complete antenna specifications or antenna test reports from March 1, 2023.

On February 6, 2023, The FCC of the United States officially issued the updated document DA/FCC No.: FCC-22-84 \"Protection of the communication supply chain from national security threats through the equipment authorization plan\" (47 CFR Parts 2 and 15 ET Docket No. 21-232 and EA Docket No. 21-233], which will take effect immediately from the date of release, without a transition period. This document is mainly about the FCC\'s protection of the communication supply chain from national security threats through the equipment authorization plan, thus limiting the contents and equipment on the Covered List.

On January 27, 2023, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) added 1-bromo-3-chloropropane, butoxymethyloxirane and 2-methyl-2-acrylate oxiranyl methyl ester to the list of hazardous substances in California Proposition 65. The above three substances were added because of carcinogenicity. After the substance is listed, the warning must be completed before January 27, 2024 if it is required to provide warning according to the bill. There are nearly 1000 substances in California\'s list of 65 hazardous substances, which are updated at least once a year. This is the first update in 2023.

On January 26, 2023, the European Commission issued Directive (EU) 2023/171 in its Official Journal (OJ), amending the relevant exemption items in Annex III of the EU RoHS Directive (2011/65/EU), and adding the exemption provisions on hexavalent chromium in Item 9 (a) - III. The exemption will take effect on September 1, 2023 and will be valid until December 31, 2026.

GB 31241-2022 \"Safety Technical Specification for Lithium-ion Batteries and Battery Packs for Portable Electronic Products\" (hereinafter referred to as the \"New Standard\") has been officially issued on December 29, 2022, and will be implemented and replace GB 31241-2014 (hereinafter referred to as the \"old Standard\") from January 1, 2024.

On January 19, 2023, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) notified that DOE issued a pre-release Federal Register EERE-2020-BT-STD-0006 on the proposed rulemaking (NOPR) for energy conservation standards for external power sources (EPS). The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) requires the Department of Energy to regularly determine whether stricter standards are technically feasible and economically reasonable in order to achieve significant energy conservation. In this NOPR, the Ministry of Energy proposed revised standards for EPS and announced that a public meeting would be held to accept comments on these proposed standards and related analysis and results.