On July 28, 2023, the national technical committee on test methods of hazardous substances, the SAC/TC 297/SC3, issued a draft of GB/T 31274 Restricted substances management systems of electrical and electronic products-Requirements (hereinafter referred to “the Standard”) to call for public comments. All stakeholders are allowed to submit comments and feedback for this national voluntary standard draft before September 5, 2023.

GB/T 31274 is one of the standards that supports the China RoHS system. It specifies the requirements of the restricted substances management system for organizations related to the production of electronic and electrical products and aims to help organizations identify the processes related to the use of restricted substances in accordance with relevant laws and regulations or customer requirements, while establishing and implementing the restricted substances management system.

The Standard is applicable to organizations of all types and sizes involved in the production of electrical and electronic products to meet their needs to establish, implement, maintain and improve a restricted substance management system in order to improve their ability to manage restricted substances and thereby reduce and/or eliminate the use of restricted substances.

China’s RoHS-related management system certification are mostly based on IECQ QC080000:2017 IEC Quality Assessment System for Electronic Components (IECQ System) - Hazardous Substance Process Management (HSPM) System Requirements with localized adjustment in accordance with domestic experience and practice.

Key takeaways of this round of revision for foreign stakeholders include:

·  Changes in terms and definitions: adding 6 new terms and deleting “restricted substance control”.

·  Supplementing some notes to further explain stipulations, and specifying more details for the management system based on the corporate practices in the past few years.

·  Modifying the Annex B in the 2014 version: provided the factors that can be utilized to identify and assess the risks of restricted substances in products and the risks introduced by restricted substances in the process.

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