On June 27th, 2024, ECHA officially announced that one SVHC substance was added to the 31st batch of REACH candidate list. So far, the REACH substances of very high concern list has officially increased to 241 items.

GB/T 7260.1-2023 \"Uninterruptible Power Supply System (UPS) Part 1: Safety Requirements\" (hereinafter referred to as \"the new standard\") was issued on December 28th, 2023, and will be implemented on July 1st, 2024, replacing GB/T 7260.1-2008 and GB/T 7260.4-2008. China Quality Certification Center (CQC) revised the certification rules CQC12-461291-2015 \"Safety and EMC Certification Rules for Uninterruptible Power Supply Equipment\" related to the above standards, corresponding to the subclass number 001017.

According to the latest notice of SASO (Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization), from August 1st, 2024, USB Type-C interface will be adopted for electronic device interfaces and smart phone chargers that are required to enter the Saudi market. Related products must meet the requirements of updated standards Saso IEC 62680-1-2: 2017 and Saso IEC 62680-1-3: 2017 in order to obtain conformity certificates.

On May 30, 2024, the governor of Vermont, USA, signed the SB 25 Act to control the use of perfluoro and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), bisphenol substances and phthalates. The bill will take effect on July 1, 2024 and will be implemented in stages from that date.

On June 7th, 2024, ECHA announced a new SVHC intentional substance O,O,O- triphenylphosphorothioate. ECHA plans to launch a public comment on this substance in August, 2024. During the public comment, all stakeholders can submit feedback to ECHA, and ECHA will submit feedback to the public.

On May 23rd, 2023, the new standard GB 21520-2023 \"Limited Value and Grade of Energy Efficiency of Display\" (hereinafter referred to as the \"new standard\") was released, and will be officially implemented on June 1st, 2024, replacing the original GB 21520-2015 standard (hereinafter referred to as the \"old standard\").

On May 17th, 2024, the Official Gazette of the European Union (OJ) published the amendment (EU) 2024/1328 to REACH Regulation (EC) No.1907/2006, which mainly revised D4, D5 and D6 in Annex 17 of REACH, and came into effect on June 6th, 2024.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a Supplementary Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPR) to amend the 16 CFR 1110 Certificate of Compliance. The supplementary notice suggested that the certification rules should be consistent with other CPSC rules on testing and certification. At the same time, CPSC cooperated with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to simplify the process of submitting consumer product compliance certificates through electronic eFiling, including children\'s product certification (CPC) and basic product compliance certification (GCC).