The European Chemical Agency officially announced 15 substances of high concern NO.39/2008. The Member State Committee of the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) held a meeting in Helsinki, Finland on October 7 and 8, 2008. In accordance with the resolution of the committee, the necessary announcements were made. The 15 authorized substances of very high concern (SVHC) are on the official website. 15 items of SVHC Anthracene (Anthracene) Ditributyltin oxide 4,4-diaminodiphenylmethane Cobalt chloride Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) Arsenic pentoxide Tolylbutyl phthalate (BBP) Arsenic trioxide o Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) Triethyl arsenate 13) The SVHC Candidate List was submitted by seven member states in July 2008 in accordance with the format of Appendix 15 of the REACH Directive. A total of 16 chemical substances were proposed. It was announced and accepted for public consultation from July to August 2008. Based on the opinions of stakeholders and member states, the Member State Committee unanimously confirmed at the meeting that in addition to "triethyl arsenate" which had been approved as a substance of high concern during the announcement and discussion stage, 14 other chemical substances were listed as substances of high concern. Authorized substances of very high concern. and was previously listed

EU REACH: Latest News NO.40/2008 If the finished products of producers or finished product importers in the EU and the European Economic Community contain any substance on the candidate list of substances of very high concern (SVHC) in the REACH directive, the concentration exceeds 0.1% and exceeds One tonne (per year per company of the finished product produced or imported), the producer or importer of the finished product must notify the European Chemical Agency on a mandatory basis. The relevant notification time regulations are as follows: For SVHCs announced before December 1, 2010, the notification time shall not be later than June 1, 2011. For SVHCs that are included on or after December 1, 2010, the notification time shall not be later than six months after the substance is included. Latest announcement REACH FAQ version 2.3 – Announced on 2008/11/06, this version adds six registration-related questions. Please link to http://echa.europa.eu/reach/faq_en.asp. Appendix V and Draft Guidelines on Waste – The European Commission has completed and announced Appendix V, Draft Guidelines on Waste and Recycled Materials. Both documents have been handed over to the European Chemical Agency for future cooperation and development with Member States and stakeholders. In addition, the hazardous substances in Appendix 17 of the REACH regulations will also be implemented on 2009/06/01. Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) Regulations Article 33 of the REACH Regulation

Greenpeace publishes the tenth edition of "Guide to Greener Electronics" NO.42/2008. Since the first edition of the Electronic Enterprise Green Assessment (Guide to Greener Electronics) in August 2006, Greenpeace has updated the assessment every three months. The latest tenth edition was released on November 24, 2008. A total of 18 world-renowned manufacturers were evaluated, with products covering computers, mobile phones, TVs and game consoles. Key points of the evaluation: This evaluation continues the key points of the eighth edition, and evaluates each major manufacturer based on 15 criteria. The content covers: Whether specific hazardous substances are used in products and whether they are included in the SVHC on or after December 1, 2010, and their notifications No later than six months after the substance is included. In the evaluation ranking of improving corporate policies and practices related to climate and energy, Nokia retained the first place with a score of 6.9. Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Samsung tied for second place, followed closely by Fujitsu Siemens and LGE. Motorola, Microsoft, Dell and Apple do not have any goals or timelines for reducing global warming pollution and carbon dioxide emissions. Only Fujitsu, Philips and Sharp support the goal of reducing 30% greenhouse gas emissions by 2020; HP and Philips have made clearer commitments to reduce 30% greenhouse gas emissions.

US Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act NO.41/2008 US President Bush signed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) on August 14, 2008. The regulations authorize and expand the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) greater authority to prevent unsafe products from entering the United States to make up for the shortcomings of current U.S. consumer product safety laws. The key content of the "Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act" prohibits the sale of any product that is targeted at children 12 years old or younger and contains lead that exceeds the regulations. The upper limit of lead content will be implemented in stages. The upper limit of lead content will be 600 ppm from February 10, 2009. In the second stage, the allowable limit will be changed to 300 ppm from August 14, 2009. The allowable limit will be from August 14, 2011, three years later. Change to 100 ppm. The upper limit of lead content in topcoats for furniture, toys and other children's products will be lowered from the current 0.06% to 0.009% by weight starting from August 14, 2009. Permanent bans were issued on bis-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP) and butylbenzyl phthalate (BBP). A transitional period order will be implemented for diisononyl phthalate (DINP), diisodecyl phthalate (DIDP) and di-n-octyl phthalate (DNOP) until chronic danger

IEC 62321 Ed.1 will soon be officially released as the final draft international standard version NO.37/2008 IEC 111/116/FDIS. After two months of voting (from August 1, 2008 to October 3, 2008), it has been The results of the vote were announced on its official website on October 14, 2008. The main purpose of the 111/116/FDIS vote is whether to agree to issue the Final Draft International Standard (FDIS; Final Draft International Standard) as an international standard. The voting results are summarized as follows: P-Members voted in favor of the guidelines: 25 P-Members in favor: 25 = 100 % >= 67% Total votes passed: 29 Total votes against: 0 = 0 % <= 25% Passed Final decision passed except Greece, Four countries, including Israel, Poland and Portugal, abstained and all voted in favor. The voting result was in favor of the final draft version of the international standard becoming an international standard. The international standard IEC62321 Ed.1 will be officially released soon, but its publication date has not yet been determined. SGS will pay close attention to the latest relevant news. If you have any questions, please feel free to write or call our customer service personnel. SGS is a member of the IEC Banned Substance Testing Task Force (IEC/TC 111 WG3). In addition to passing

China RoHS Management Catalog Development Procedure Announcement NO.38/2008 The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China announced the "Procedure for the Development of Key Management Catalogs for Pollution Control of Electronic Information Products" with 16 articles in total. The purpose is to objectively, fairly and impartially formulate a key management catalog for the pollution control management of electronic information products, and to prohibit or restrict the use of toxic and harmful substances in electronic information products through catalog management. Article 5 lists the principles that should be followed when determining products to enter the key management catalog: (1) Select products with large output, wide application, and containing toxic and harmful substances that pose a great threat to the environment, cause great damage to the environment, and cause great harm to human health; Materials; (2) Choose products that contain toxic and harmful substances that can be replaced by non-toxic and harmless substances or low-toxic and low-harm substances without technical obstacles and are economically feasible; (3) Choose products that can satisfy the needs of replacing toxic and harmful substances even though it is impossible to achieve them. There are no technical obstacles to the production of products that meet the requirements of the limit standards for toxic and hazardous substances and meet the limit standards, and are economically feasible products. (4) Choose products that are clearly restricted due to serious pollution in international conventions. (5) Select other products that should be included in the key management catalog management. The remaining key points to note in the announcement are: The key management catalog for pollution control of electronic information products consists of the product names of electronic information products, the types of toxic and hazardous substances that are restricted in use and their use periods, and is carried out year by year according to the actual situation and the requirements of the level of scientific and technological development. Adjustments will be made step by step in a batch-by-batch manner. work

EU REACH: Latest Update on SVHC Candidate List No. 35/2008 Geert Dancet, CEO of the European Chemical Agency (ECHA), presented on the "authorization process" at the Substitution Conference on Hazardous Substances held in Brussels on September 17 It also explains the status of the previously released REACH Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) list. Mr. Dancet explained that if the progress is as expected, the 16 SVHC lists recently announced will be voted on in October. Four substances in the first batch of lists are relatively controversial. The fourth Member State Committee (MSC) meeting in October will discuss whether to include them in the SVHC list. Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD) (main opinion comes from industry) Anthracene (main opinion comes from industry) Cyclododecane (one Member State and industry do not support the nomination of this substance) Xylene Musk (Musk xylene) (Main opinions come from the industry) What are substances of very high concern (SVHC)? According to the EU’s new chemical regulations (REACH), the SVHC list that is included in Appendix Category 2 is carcinogenic, mutagenic and reproductively toxic (Carcinog

The 30th revision of the EU Dangerous Substances Directive NO.36/2008 In the Official Journal of the European Union issued on September 15, 2008, the Commission announced the 2008/58/EC directive ruled on August 21, 2008, and on October 5, 2008 Effective date. This is the 30th revision of the Hazardous Substances Directive 67/548/EEC. Each EU member state must convert the directive into domestic law before June 1, 2009. 2008/58/EC Revision Contents Directive 2008/58/EC revise Directive 67/548/EEC on the classification, packaging and labeling of hazardous substances. This is because the classification and labeling information of some new substances or existing substances must be revised. renew. This Appendix I substance list: A total of more than 800 chemical substances (nearly 290 CMR (Carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction) substances that cause cancer, cause gene mutations and affect reproductive ability) are included in the list. 380 new substances have been added to 516 substances. The classification and labeling have been modified and 3 substances have been deleted. Note 6 and related information in Appendix I have been deleted. The main content revision direction: For example, benzene (benzene) has been classified as a mutagenic substance (mutagen). Therefore, all substances containing benzene should be separated and classified. Nickel alloy products cause human allergies mainly due to the amount of nickel released, not the nickel content of the alloy.

Greenpeace publishes the ninth edition of "Guide to Greener Electronics" NO.34/2008. Since the first edition of the electronics enterprise green assessment (Guide to Greener Electronics) in August 2006, Greenpeace has updated the assessment every three months. The latest ninth edition was released on September 16, 2008. A total of 18 world-renowned manufacturers were evaluated, with products covering computers, mobile phones, TVs and game consoles. Key points of the evaluation: This evaluation continues the key points of the eighth edition and evaluates each major manufacturer based on 15 criteria. The content covers: Rectifying the products of major manufacturers by removing harmful substances Responsible recovery/recycling of waste products Improvement and climate For detailed review key points of energy-related corporate policies and practices, please refer to the 25th issue of SGS’s 2008 e-newsletter Greenpeace released the eighth edition of “Guide to Greener Electronics”. Top five evaluation rankings Ninth edition Eighth edition 1 Nokia Sony Ericsson & Sony 2 Samsung – 3 Fujitsu Siemens Nokia 4 Sony Ericsson Samsung & Dell 5 Sony – Compared with the eighth edition, the evaluation focus has changed, which has led to the overall Evaluation score

The European Union revised the ELV "Vehicle Abandonment Directive" exclusion project NO.33/2008. The European Commission published the 2008/689/EC directive ruled on August 1, 2008 in the Official Journal of the European Union issued on August 23, 2008. This directive Amend Annex II of the ELV (End-of-Life Vehicles) Vehicle Abandonment Directive 2000/53/EC. This appendix is an exclusion list for Article 4(2)(a) of the ELV Directive, and this revised directive has come into effect on August 26, 2008. Revision content In order to cope with technological development, the European Commission has revised Appendix II five times since 2002. The most recent one was in September 2005 (2005/673/EC), and its main content was to discuss the expiring exclusive project to determine whether the project should be continued. The revised guidelines are as follows: Most exclusionary projects expired in July 2008. The exclusion period of heavy metals that can be avoided or replaced by substitute substances due to technological development will not be extended. Heavy metals whose use cannot be avoided or for which there is still no substitute substance will continue to be listed as excluded items. The European Commission will regularly review this exclusionary project and give it enough time to phase it out in the future. Directive 2005/438/EC allows vehicle spare parts launched after July 1, 2003 to be installed on vehicles launched before July 1, 2003 (that is, for safety reasons, only original spare parts can be used for vehicles launched before July 1, 2003). (i.e. contains heavy metals

Canada approved the ban on perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) NO.28/2008 The Canadian government recently approved the ban on perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) issued by the Ministry of Environment on January 9, 2007 and Proposed regulations for its salts and derivative compounds in consumer products. This regulation requires that starting from May 29, 2008, the manufacture, use, sale, supply, import and manufacture of products containing PFOS will be prohibited. This regulation is formulated in accordance with subdivision 93(1) of item 319 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999 (Canadian Environmental Protection Act, CEPA 1999). It is intended to prevent the harm caused to the environment by the use of the following substances. Perfluorooctane sulfonate and its salts contain compounds containing C8F17SO2, C8F17SO3 or C8F17SO2N groups. In Europe, the European Parliament voted in 2007 to adopt new amendments to the EU Hazardous Substances Directive (76/769/EEC) 2006/122/ EC, strictly restricts the placing on the market and use of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and its related substances. Each member shall transpose the content of the Directive into its domestic law by December 27, 2007, and shall commence the implementation on June 27, 2008.