The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has quietly updated its lithium battery standards! The 2025 edition of IEC 60086-4 primarily targets certain special types of disposable lithium batteries (e.g., spiral-wound over-discharge batteries). However, for most companies—“St...
The European Commission adopted Supplementary Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 in 2022, explicitly requiring radio equipment to comply with cybersecurity, privacy protection, and anti-fraud requirements.
▍Regulatory Timeline
August 2024: Publication of supporting standard EN 18031, detailing cy...
On March 07, 2025, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) officially published version 3.0 of the Basic Standard for Electrostatic Discharge Immunity Testing, IEC 61000-4-2:2025 ed3.0, which replaces IEC 61000-4-2:2008 ed2.0, published in 2008, with a stabilization date of 2...
On April 18, 2023, the European Commission (EC) published a new version of the eco-design regulation (EU) 2023/826 – Eco-design requirements for the energy consumption of electrical and electronic equipment for domestic and office use in switch-off mode, standby mode and network st...
On 18 February 2025, the European Commission published on its official website a draft amendment to Annex I of the POPs Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 proposing to revise the limit values for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) (including tetra-, penta-, hexa-, he...
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I.Directive Issuance
The European Commission put forward a proposal to harmonize charging interfaces in 2019 and formally published a revised Directive Directive (EU) 2022/2380 on universal chargers through the Official Journal in December 2022 to complement 3.3(a) of the RED Direc...
On January 21, 2025, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) added 5 substances under evaluation to the thirty-third batch of Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC) candidate list. As a result, the SVHC candidate list was officially updated to include 247 substances.
The newly added SVHC (Substance...
The European Commission revised the standard for harmonic current emission limits (equipment input current ≤ 16A per phase) and officially published EN IEC 61000-3-2:2019/A2:2024 on April 12, 2024 and will be mandatory on April 08, 2027.
Technical amendments to EN IEC 61000-3-2:2019/A2:2024 editi...
As the rollout of WIFI 6 accelerates, many users around the world are able to use WIFI 6 networks. However, following the launch of the new WIFI 6E in late 2020, more and more WIFI 6E chips and products are being introduced in 2021 and the latest WIFI 7 technology will be adopted in 2024.
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On December 6, 2024, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) published on its website the final text of the California Proposition 65 Short Form Warning Label, which amends sections 25601, 25602, 25603, and 25607.2 of Chapter 6 of Title 27 of the California Propos...
In October 2024, EU RAPEX initiated 352 notifications, of which 175 came from China, accounting for 49.7%. The types of product notifications mainly involved toys, electrical equipment and so on. From the point of view of excessive cases, lead, cadmium, o-benzene, SCCP are still high-risk items. ...
On July 12, 2023, the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) published an amendment of Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 (EU) 2023/1422,which amends Appendix I of (EU) No 10/2011, and until to now, have been made 16 times.The bill will come into force on August 1, 2023.
Major amendments
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