On June 24, 2022, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (TISI) of Thailand issued an announcement stipulating that 20 types of audio-video, information and communication technology (AV/ICT) equipment should be mandatory to comply with the TIS 62368-1 (2563) standard (reference standard: IEC 62368-1 :2018), superseding the old standard TIS 1195-2536. The effective date of products 1-19 is December 21, 2022, and the effective date of product 20 is October 17, 2023.

On July 1, 2022, the Indian TEC issued a notice to extend the validity of the Regular (TEC) MTCTE certificate from 5 years to 10 years.Effective Date: Effective immediately from the date of publication of the notice.

Important update! UK officials announce latest UKCA requirements

On June 16, 2022, the United Kingdom (UK) officially released the SI 2022 No. 659 document, its \"Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011\" (UK SI 2011 No. 1881, \"Toys Regulations\") and \"Cosmetics Regulations 1223\" /2009, the update applies to both England, Wales and Scotland.

On June 13, 2022, the Engineering Centre of India (TEC) made some changes to the circular issued on January 31, 2022. The contents are as follows：1. Extend the mandatory date of products in Phases 3 and 4 from the original July 1, 2022 to July 1, 2023.2. The acceptance date of ILAC reports from foreign laboratories has been revised (extended from June 30, 2022 to June 30, 2023).

On May 16, 2022, the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam issued a new version of the compulsory certification regulation 02/2022/TT-BTTTT, which specifies the products that need to be subject to conformity assessment (if in the form of certification and declaration). The regulation will come into effect on July 1, 2022, replacing the old 11/2020/TT-BTTTT and 01/2021/TT-BTTTT.

On 24 May 2022, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) launched a public consultation on 5 substances proposed for inclusion in the Persistent Organic Pollutants Regulation (POPs Regulation) and will consider stakeholders at relevant stages of the Convention process , including the preparation and review of proposals to list chemicals as POPs. The public consultation period ends on July 19, 2022, during which stakeholders can post comments on the ECHA website.

On June 7, 2022, at local time in Europe, negotiators from the European Parliament and the 27 EU member states reached an agreement to unify all portable electronic device charging interfaces in the EU after two years, that is, to decide to standardize uniformly in 2024. Charging equipment requires that mobile phones, tablets, cameras, etc. must have a unified charger interface.