On October 9, 2025, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced that the EU Member States Committee (MSC) has agreed to designate 1,1\'-(1,2-ethylene)bis[pentabromobenzene] (decabromodiphenylethane, DBDPE) as a substance of very high concern, or SVHC, due to its very persistent and very bioaccumulative (vPvB) properties. ECHA plans to add the substance to the Candidate List in November, bringing the total number of substances on the official Candidate List to 251.

On September 17th, 2025, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) withdrew \"dodecyl pentasiloxane\" from the list of intended substances of SVHC. At present, there are no substances listed in the SVHC intentional substance list.

To dispel consumer misunderstandings about the nature of certificates and ensure the authority and clarity of the CE mark as a mandatory EU Declaration of Conformity, the EU recently reiterated the CE Marking Rules (COMMISSION NOTICE, \"The \'Blue Guide\' on the Implementation of EU Product Rules 2022\") issued on June 29, 2022. These rules specifically state that the terms \"certification\" and \"independent third party\" must not be used in voluntary certificates, and the CE mark is strictly prohibited.

On September 25th, 2025, the Official Gazette of the European Union (OJ) issued the revised Regulation (EU) 2025/1930, adding the control requirements of Dechlorane Plus (DP) in Appendix I of POPs Regulation (EU)2019/1021, which will take effect on October 15th, 2025. So far, the list of restricted substances in Part A of Appendix I of POPs regulations has increased to 32.

New IATA DGR regulations in 2026: Interpretation of compliance points of state of charge (SoC) of lithium battery goods!

Recently, the board of directors of Bluetooth SIG passed a resolution to increase the relevant fees of all SIG members by about 8.7%, and it is planned to take effect on March 1, 2026. This fee adjustment is mainly used to cope with the increasing service and operating costs and ensure that SIG can continue to provide high-quality resource support and service guarantee for its members.

On July 24th, 2025, the Canadian Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) issued the implementation radio standard specification RSS-247 Issue 4, which replaced the RSS-247 Issue 3 issued in August, 2023 and was enforced six months after the date of publication.

On September 1st, 2025, ECHA published a new list of SVHC consulting substances, and conducted public comments on three potential SVHC substances. The public comment ended on October 16th, 2025, during which all stakeholders can submit comments to ECHA. ECHA will comment on the feedback submitted by the public. If these three substances pass the evaluation, they will be added to the official candidate list of SVHC.