On May 28, 2024, SAC/TC297/SC3 held a working meeting in Shenyang city for the draft of national mandatory standard project of China RoHS, Requirements for certain restricted substances in electrical and electronic products (hereinafter referred to as “the Standard Draft”).
About 60 experts participated in the meeting, and the leader of the China Electronics Standardization Institute (secretariat of the SC) emphasized the significance and the positioning set by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT): i) improving the applicability and effectiveness of the standard; ii) close gap with relevant international standards; iii) fully supportive for boosting the supply and quality of green products.
The current Standard Draft contains 7 chapters and 4 annexes. The main contents and some supportive information please refer to the 20240415 BESTAO Policy Briefing - Significant Updates on China RoHS - On-going Mandatory Standard in the March monthly report.
The main objective of this working meeting is:
· Brief the comments collected from the internal opinion soliciting and gave the reply from the secretariat to the experts in the working group.
· Full review on the latest draft of the mandatory standard and collected additional comments.
About 60 pieces of feedback has been collected from the previous round, and based on the contents, agreed modifications taking in the present draft are mostly some wording optimizations to avoid blurred expression or misunderstanding, and change Annex C Requirements on the Informatization System of Restricted Substances in Electrical and Electronic Products from informative to normative.
Considering the importance of this standard (will replace 2 presently core standards in the China RoHS system, GB/T 26572 (concentration limits for certain restricted substances) and SJ/T 11364 (marking and labelling), attendees of the meeting carried in-depth engagement on following topics:
· Structure and key items covered, especially how detail would some requirements dig into considering it a mandatory standard.
· Quantitative requirements set on conformity assessment for electrical and electronic products.
· Annex B: report format and requirements for the testing of certain restricted substances in electrical and electronic products.
· Annex C: requirements of informatization managing system on certain restricted substances in electrical and electronic products.
The working group will continue to collect feedback from working group experts and finalize a draft for public comment before June 28, 2024. The next working meeting on this standard is scheduled in the end of September.
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