On August 6, 2024, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) added barium chromate to the SVHC substance of interest. ECHA plans to launch a public review of this substance in March 2025. If the review is approved, it will be officially added to the SVHC candidate list.

On July 30, 2024, the EU launched a public consultation on the revised draft of POPs Regulation (EU)2019/1021, which proposed that UV-328 be listed in Annex I of POPs Regulation for control. The review period ended on August 27, 2024, during which stakeholders can submit feedback to the European Commission. If this draft is passed, the European Commission will issue the revised EU POPs regulations to include UV-328 in the list of prohibited substances for control.

Recently, the Organization for Standardization of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GSO) issued a notice to update the G-Mark registration platform, and the updated contents will take effect on July 27, 2024.

On July 15th, 2024, TISI of Thailand published a number of new compulsory standards for industrial products, including the new standard of mobile power pack (charging treasure): TIS 2879-2567 (2024).

Recently, SASO of Saudi Arabia revised its regulations on electronic equipment interfaces, and announced that the new regulations originally planned to be implemented on August 1, 2024 will be postponed to January 1, 2025. That is to say, from January 1st, 2025, the products of the following HS CODE must adopt USB Type-C interface, and when applying for SABER COC certification in Saudi Arabia, a test report proving that the USB Type-C interface of the products meets the requirements of SAO IEC 62680-1-2: 2017 and SAO-IEC 62680-1-3: 2017 is required.

On January 30th, 2024, the Bluetooth authentication process was updated, and the board of directors of Bluetooth SIG approved the upcoming revision of the Bluetooth authentication process in the latest draft of QPRDv3 (QPRD_PROC_d3r15). The new process will be simplified, the inconsistency between management documents and operation documents will be solved, and the process documents will be merged into a single document: QPRDv3.

On July 5th, 2024, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) of the Indian government issued an official document, announcing that STPI, an Indian software technology park, would be responsible for the market sampling inspection of compulsory registered electronic information technology products. Manufacturers should pay attention to the notice of STIP and cooperate with the sampling inspection process to avoid being punished.

On July 2, 2024, the State Administration of Market Supervision issued an announcement to implement compulsory product certification (CCC certification) management for lithium-ion batteries and chargers for electric bicycles, and accepted certification entrustment from October 15, 2024. From November 1, 2025, lithium-ion batteries for electric bicycles and chargers for electric bicycles shall be CCC certified and marked with CCC certification marks before leaving the factory, selling, importing or using in other business activities.