On January 20, 2025, the Moroccan National Telecommunications Authority (ANRT) issued Decision ANRT/DG/N°16/24, which replaced and abolished Decision ANRT/DG/N°12/04 issued in 2004, and updated the type approval and labeling requirements for telecommunications terminal equipment and radio electronic equipment sold and used in Morocco, and will take full effect on May 1, 2025. Non-compliant products will face the risk of banning sales, recalls and high fines, and companies need to start responding immediately!

On October 22, 2024, the United States (ANSI) and Canada (SCC) released the safety standard ANSI/CAN/UL 2056:2024 for mobile power banks. Compared with the 2020 version of the outline \"Outline of Investigation for Safety of Lithium-ion Power Banks\", the new version of the standard ANSI/CAN/UL 2056 \"Standard for Safety Power Banks\" has been changed in terms of scope of application, test requirements and methods.

On April 14, 2025, the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People\'s Republic of China issued an announcement: According to the mandatory national standard formulation and revision plan issued by the National Standards Committee, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has organized and completed the preparation of three mandatory national standards (drafts for approval), including \"Requirements for the Restriction of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Products\". In order to further listen to opinions from all walks of life, the draft standard and the preparation instructions are now publicized. The deadline for soliciting opinions is April 21, 2025. The public can feedback different opinions during the publicity period.

On April 14, 2025, the European Commission adopted the draft amendment to the POPs regulations issued on December 4, 2023, which aims to revise the restriction requirements for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS). In the future, the European Commission will publish the revised POPs regulations in the EU Official Gazette to make the restriction requirements on PFOS formally effective.

On February 25, 2025, the Argentine Secretariat of Industry and Commerce successively issued Resolutions No. 16/2025, No. 17/2025 and No. 26/2025, aiming to simplify and eliminate any obstacles and re...

On April 2, 2025, the EU published Regulation (EU) 2025/660 in its Official Gazette, amending the provisions on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in clay targets in Annex XVII of REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006), adding Item 50a to restrict the use of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in clay targets for shooting. This provision will take effect on the 20th day after the publication in the EU Official Gazette and will be officially implemented on April 22, 2026.

On February 26th, 2025, european committee for standardization (CEN) issued three standards for toy safety testing methods. The purpose of the three test method standards issued this time is to check whether the toy materials meet the limit values in Appendix C of Annex II of EU Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC.

Recently, the Ministry of Information and Communication of Vietnam (MIC-MOST) issued the Draft Notice on the List of Products and Goods Managed by the Ministry of Information, which pointed out that the performance test of IEC 61960-3:2017 in QCVN 101:2020/BTTTT standard will be fully enforced from January 1, 2026.