IEC launches global RoHS standards based on EU standards. The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) was established in 1906. It is mainly responsible for international standardization work in the fields of electrical engineering and electronic engineering. It is the world's earliest international standardization organization. . IEC published the IEC 6300 standard based on the EU EN 50581 standard in October this year (2016) to assist electronic and electrical manufacturers to comply with the requirements of the EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances in Electronic and Electrical Equipment Directive (RoHS Directive). The RoHS Directive stipulates that electronic and electrical manufacturers must provide product technical documents and proof of compliance with hazardous substance limits. Since the supply chain of electronic and electrical products spans the world, includes a variety of industries, and covers large and small enterprises, IEC has launched the IEC 6300 standard to define the scope, content, and information collection and evaluation methods of technical document information disclosure. It is hoped that global electronic and electrical manufacturers, regardless of size, will be consistent in information disclosure, saving manpower and time costs for upstream and downstream manufacturers in the supply chain to comply with international hazardous substances regulations. Iain Lindsay, one of the IEC standards editors and EU regulations manager, pointed out that although there are many international hazardous substances limit directives similar to RoHS, the hazardous substances and their limits regulated in them are also different, but if companies make products based on the IEC 6300 standard technology

The European Commission seeks to exempt second-hand electronic and electrical equipment from the RoHS ban. The European Commission has made recommendations on second-hand electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and their parts. If the above items contain hazardous substances, they should be excluded from the RoHS Directive 2019. Yearly maturity limit. The RoHS Directive, in order to limit the content of hazardous substances in electronic and electrical products, clearly stipulates that after July 22, 2019, all electronic and electrical products that do not comply with the RoHS Directive will be prohibited from being sold for the first time on the market or in the second-hand market. Products that will be greatly affected by the above-mentioned second-hand market restrictions are mostly medical equipment, monitoring equipment and other electronic and electrical products that have just been included in the RoHS regulations. The European Commission stated that this obstacle to the operation of the second-hand market is not consistent with the overall coordination of EU product regulations, so the proposal proposes to exclude second-hand electronic and electrical products and parts from compliance requirements. In the RoHS directive, compliance requirements for wires and parts used for repair, reuse, functional renewal or performance upgrade are provided to exclude RoHS general restricted substances. However, for other types of electronic and electrical products that are not medical equipment or monitoring equipment and are newly included in the RoHS directive, there will be no second-hand parts available for repair on the market after July 22, 2019. The most fundamental reason why the European Commission put forward the above suggestions is that the EU has actively promoted circular economy this year, and one of the principles of circular economy is the

Singapore has announced RoHS-like regulations that are expected to take effect in 2017. Singapore’s Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR) recently announced regulations similar to the EU RoHS directive, prohibiting the addition of six hazardous substances in electronic and electrical products. The regulations are expected to take effect on June 1, 2017. Singapore's National Environment Agency (NEA) pointed out that the second-level Environmental Protection and Management Act (Environmental Protection and Management Act) has added new amendments based on the EU RoHS directive to regulate the addition limits of the following hazardous substances: – Cadmium and its compounds; – Hexavalent chromium; – Lead and its compounds; – Mercury and its compounds; – Polybrominated biphenyls; and – Polybrominated diphenyl ethers. However, Singapore's RoHS-like regulations only control a relatively small number of products. The items are as follows: – mobile phones; – notebook computers; – refrigerators; – air conditioners; – panel TV sets; and – washing machines. NEA recommends that all electrical and electronic products

RoHS2 Annex III exemption clause update status and law amendment progress Since 2003, the European Union has implemented RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances, Directive 2002/95/EC) to regulate hazardous substances in electronic and electrical equipment products. The updated version of the regulation RoHS2 (Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Directive 2011/65/EU) effective on July 21, 2011. For 11 product categories, the control covers substances such as lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls, polybrominated diphenyl ethers and 4 types of phthalates. Taking into account the feasibility of existing science and technology, the practicality of alternatives and the socio-economic impact, exemptions and validity periods for specific controlled substances in specific products are formulated in Annex III and Annex IV. Before the exemption period expires, manufacturers can apply to the European Commission to extend the existing exemption period based on their own needs. Article 5 of RoHS2 points out that the exemption clause in Appendix 3 shall be valid until July 21, 2016 for products in categories 1 to 7 and 10, and until 2018 for products in categories 8 and 9.