Recently, the board of directors of Bluetooth SIG passed a resolution to increase the relevant fees of all SIG members by about 8.7%, and it is planned to take effect on March 1, 2026. This fee adjustment is mainly used to cope with the increasing service and operating costs and ensure that SIG can continue to provide high-quality resource support and service guarantee for its members.

On July 24th, 2025, the Canadian Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) issued the implementation radio standard specification RSS-247 Issue 4, which replaced the RSS-247 Issue 3 issued in August, 2023 and was enforced six months after the date of publication.

On September 1st, 2025, ECHA published a new list of SVHC consulting substances, and conducted public comments on three potential SVHC substances. The public comment ended on October 16th, 2025, during which all stakeholders can submit comments to ECHA. ECHA will comment on the feedback submitted by the public. If these three substances pass the evaluation, they will be added to the official candidate list of SVHC.

On September 1, 2025, the EU REACH Amendment Regulation (EU) 2025/1731 came into effect, marking the full implementation of the new restrictions on 16 CMR substances (carcinogenic, mutagenic and reproductive toxic substances) in Articles 28, 29 and 30 of Annex XVII of REACH Regulation. This regulation update is to adapt to the classification adjustment of EU CLP regulation (namely, Regulation (EC) No.1272/2008 on Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Chemicals).

On July 31, 2025, an important news came that the new industry standard IEC 63315 ED1 of USB-C PD 240W has entered the Enquiry stage and is scheduled to be officially released on July 31, 2026. It will completely replace the old standard IEC 62368-3 released in 2017.

On August 18, 2025, the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements under the new EU Battery Regulation (EU 2023/1542) officially came into effect. This means that all manufacturers and sellers of batteries or products containing batteries in EU countries must complete EPR registration in the corresponding country by that date and submit the registration number to e-commerce platforms such as Amazon and TEMU as required. Otherwise, their products will face the risk of being removed from shelves and banned from sale due to non-compliance.

On August 11th, 2025, the European Union published the Regulation (EU) 2025/1731 in its official gazette, which revised the restricted list of carcinogenic, mutagenic and reproductive toxic (CMR) substances in Annex XVII of REACH Regulation. This revision adds 16 Category 1B CMR substances and one exemption clause, which will take effect on September 1, 2025.

Recently, the Ministry of Environment of Taiwan, China issued the draft of Management Matters of Perfluorinated and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances and Their Operation, according to the Law on Toxic and Concerned Chemicals (TCCSCA), proposing to designate 269 PFAS as concerned chemicals, which is expected to take effect from January 1, 2026.