On May 16, 2022, the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam issued a new version of the compulsory certification regulation 02/2022/TT-BTTTT, which specifies the products that need to be subject to conformity assessment (if in the form of certification and declaration). The regulation will come into effect on July 1, 2022, replacing the old 11/2020/TT-BTTTT and 01/2021/TT-BTTTT.

On 24 May 2022, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) launched a public consultation on 5 substances proposed for inclusion in the Persistent Organic Pollutants Regulation (POPs Regulation) and will consider stakeholders at relevant stages of the Convention process , including the preparation and review of proposals to list chemicals as POPs. The public consultation period ends on July 19, 2022, during which stakeholders can post comments on the ECHA website.

On June 7, 2022, at local time in Europe, negotiators from the European Parliament and the 27 EU member states reached an agreement to unify all portable electronic device charging interfaces in the EU after two years, that is, to decide to standardize uniformly in 2024. Charging equipment requires that mobile phones, tablets, cameras, etc. must have a unified charger interface.

On December 31, 2021, the National Standardization Administration of the State Administration for Market Regulation released the GB/T 9254.1-2021 \"Information Technology Equipment, Multimedia Equipment and Receivers Electromagnetic Compatibility Part 1: Emission\" standard and GB/T 9254.2-2021 \"Information Technology Equipment, Multimedia Equipment and Receivers Electromagnetic Compatibility Part 2: Immunity Requirements\" standard.This series of standards will be officially implemented on July 1, 2022.

On June 10, 2022, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) included the 27th batch of Item 1 review substances (N-Methylolacrylamide, CAS No. 924-42-5) into the Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) , So far, the SVHC candidate list has been officially updated to 224 items.

On December 31, 2021, the National Standardization Administration of the State Administration for Market Regulation released the GB/T 9254.1-2021 \"Information Technology Equipment, Multimedia Equipment and Receivers Electromagnetic Compatibility Part 1: Emission\" standard and GB/T 9254.2-2021 \"Information Technology Equipment, Multimedia Equipment and Receivers Electromagnetic Compatibility Part 2: Immunity Requirements\" standard.

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On May 20, 2022, the European Commission published an Initiative on restricted substances under the RoHS Directive on its official website. The proposal plans to add tetrabromobisphenol-A (TBBP-A) and medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs) to the list of RoHS restricted substances. And according to the program, the final adoption time of this plan is planned to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2022, and the final control requirements will be subject to the final decision of the European Commission.