On April 22, 2024, the Ministry of Industry of Thailand issued a new standard on \"Safety requirements for secondary batteries and battery packs containing alkaline or other non-acidic electrolytes-portable sealed secondary batteries and batteries made of them for portable applications-Part 2: lithium system\", with the standard number TIS 62133 part2-2565.

On May 21st, 2024, the Official Gazette of the European Union issued Directive (EU) 2024/1416 (hereinafter referred to as \"the Directive\"), which updated the exemption clause on cadmium in A...

On May 15th, 2024, ECHA announced a new intention substance perfluorotripropylamine (Perfluamine CASNo. 338-83-0) of SVHC. At present, the substance is in the stage of \"the proposer prepares the file of related substances\". It is expected that the file will be submitted before August 1, 2024 and a 45-day public comment will be initiated. During the public comment, all stakeholders can submit comments to ECHA, and ECHA will comment on the feedback submitted by the public. If the review is passed, the substance is expected to be formally added to the SVHC candidate list in January 2025.

According to the announcement on EMC technical regulations issued by SASO on November 17th, 2023, the new regulations will be formally implemented from May 17th, 2024. This regulation requires all traders of related products under electromagnetic compatibility technology to act in accordance with the requirements of the new regulation when applying for product compliance certificate PCoC through SABER platform.

Indonesian SDPPI issues new telecom certification regulations and SAR control standards

Recently, the General Administration of Market Supervision (National Standards Committee) issued the mandatory national standard GB 43854—2024 \"Technical Specification for Safety of Lithium-ion Batteries for Electric Bicycles\" (hereinafter referred to as \"Technical Specification\"), which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and will be officially implemented on November 1, 2024.

On March 29th, 2024, the Ministry of Transport issued the announcement of Amendment No.1 of six transportation industry standards (namely JT/T 617-2018 Road Transport Rules for Dangerous Goods Part 1: General Rules).

On April 17th, 2024, the National Telecommunication Bureau of Brazil (ANATEL) issued a new version of the test standard Act 5155/2024 for mobile phone chargers, and at the same time abolished Act 5159 issued in 2022, and another version of the old regulation Act 3481/2019 will be revoked on October 14th, 2024. The new version of Act 5155 will take effect from now on and will be enforced after October 14, 2024.