On May 20, 2021, the European Commission published the final report on the implementation of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), COM(2021) 249 final, in its Official Journal (OJ), in which new tobacco products and other emerging products, e-cigarettes and liquid storage The implementation of containers and inhaled herbal products was notified and conclusions were drawn, which will serve as the basis for revising the relevant control provisions in the new TPD regulations.

On April 11, 2022, the European Commission published Regulation (EU) 2022/586 in its Official Gazette (OJEU), adding 5 substances to the list of authorized substances in REACH Annex XIV, which will take effect on the 20th day after publication in the Official Journal . By then, the list of authorized substances under the REACH regulation will increase to 59 items.

Recently, the US FCC official website issued an announcement that the KDB 447498 D01 v07 regulation requires that the transition period be extended by 3 months to June 30, 2022. After the transition period (from July 1, 2022), the new version of the program (the upcoming v07 version) will be mandatory.

On April 5, 2022, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a notice to launch a second 15-day review of the proposed revision of the California 65 Short Warning Label Notice published on December 17, 2021, starting from April 2022. Begins on April 5 and ends on April 20, 2022. All written comments must be submitted to OEHHA by April 20, 2022, either electronically, by mail, or delivered in person.

Attention! EMC lighting fixtures standard EN IEC 55015:2019/A11:2020 will be enforced this year

On March 22, 2022, TEC India issued a notice to temporarily exclude the following five products from its certification scope: 1. Mobile user equipment/mobile phone (mobile phone); 2. Server; 3. Smart watch; 4. Smart watch Camera; 5. POS machine

On February 22, 2022, the Bureau of Standards and Inspection (BSMI) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan announced new standards CNS 15936 (105 edition) (EMC) and CNS 15598-1 (109 edition) (Safety) for IT/AV multimedia equipment, CNS 15663 No. Section 5 \"Contained Labeling\" (Edition 102) (RoHS) comes into effect.The new standard will be implemented from the date of publication, that is, on February 22, 2022, and the old standard will be discontinued from January 1, 2024. During the transition period, the two sets of standards will be used in parallel.

On February 25, 2022, the third edition of UL1973 was officially released, and the content has been greatly updated. UL1973 is the safety standard for energy storage battery systems in North America, and it is also a dual national standard for the United States and Canada. This standard mainly covers various battery systems used for stationary, vehicle auxiliary power, LER, photovoltaic, wind energy, backup power, and communication base stations, and includes structural evaluation and test evaluation of energy storage systems, but this standard is only a safety standard , excluding performance and reliability assessments.