A new DIN VDE 0620 has been released with considerable impact for those selling electrical and electronic products into the German market. Compliance with this standard is required per February 1st, 2010 with no transition period!
See our Compliance Alert! now for a clear overview of the most important changes and new requirements.
Finally on 13 Jan 2010, the European Chemicals Agency has added 14 chemical substances instead of 15 SVHC’s. Previously, per DEC 2009, the Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) also showed Acrylamide (EC No 201-173-7 and CAS No 79-06-1) as being identified as a Substance of Very High Concern by ECHA’s Member State Committee. However, pursuant to an Order of the President of the General Court of the European Union, the inclusion of acrylamide in the Candidate List of substances for eventual inclusion in Annex XIV of REACH is suspended. The total SVHCs candidate for the moment is 29 substances.
Note that all 29 Candidate SVHC’s are mentioned in our ProductIP expert database as being relevant.
(From http://ec.europa.eu/ European Commission website)
RAPEX is the EU rapid alert system for all dangerous consumer products, with the exception of food, pharmaceutical and medical devices.
It allows for the rapid exchange of information between Member States and the Commission of measures taken to prevent or restrict the marketing or use of products posing a serious risk to the health and safety of consumers. Both measures ordered by national authorities and measures taken voluntarily by producers and distributors are covered by RAPEX.
Every Friday, the Commission publishes a weekly overview of the dangerous products reported by the national authorities (the RAPEX notifications). This weekly overview gives you all information on the product, the possible danger and the measures that were taken by the reporting country.
The “RAPEX-CHINA” system
One of the concrete actions under the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2004 between DG SANCO and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China (AQSIQ) is the “RAPEX-CHINA” system. The “RAPEX-CHINA” on-line system exists for regular and rapid transmission of data between the EU and China product safety administration.
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