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News in Year 2025

Country/Region: Russia

Product Category: ITAV

Publish Date: 2025-05-12

Subject: Rosstandart approved the new standard GOST R 71230-2025 & GOST R 71231-2025 for Monitor

Applicable Product: Monitor

Operation Guide: For display products, they should comply with the requirements of EAC. Currently, Russia does not require EAC-certified monitors to meet Russia's new standards, but for monitors sold in the Russian market, manufacturers and importers need to check these two new standards in advance to ensure that the monitors meet their requirements in terms of safety testing and technical specifications.

Explanation: On May 12, 2025, the ROSSTANDART Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology issued a document approving GOST R 71230-2025 "Displays - Terms and Definitions" and GOST R 71231-2025 "Displays - Types, Basic Parameters and General Technical Requirements". These two standards have become the first national standards formulated in Russia for such products. The new standards include safety testing and technical specifications.

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Country/Region: Kenya

Product Category: LVD

Publish Date: 2025-04-30

Subject: East African Community publish the first edition of draft standard for Protection of human health or safety

Applicable Product: All types of indoor and outdoor events

Operation Guide: Once the draft standard is released as a formal standard, it will be the general Technical Requirements. Manufacturers need to check the applicable clause and ensure the product meet the standard.

Explanation: East African Community publish the first edition of draft standard for Protection of human health or safety. The standard number is DEAS 1262:2025. This Draft East African Standard specifies minimum requirements for ensuring the health and safety at event during planning, organizing and staging by an event organizer, whether an individual or an organization. This Standard applies to all types of indoor and outdoor events.

Country/Region: Israel

Product Category: HOUS

Publish Date: Air Conditioner

Subject: Israel plans to regulate air conditioners using A3 refrigerant

Applicable Product: Air Conditioner

Operation Guide: The regulation is still in the draft stage. Once it is officially implemented, air conditioners using A3 refrigerant flammable gas will be banned from import and production, except for "portable" air conditioners with a gas volume of less than 200 grams.

Explanation: Israel submitted a draft notification to WTO on April 28, 2025, due to the danger inherent in air conditioners with A3 refrigerant flammable gases. The Temporary Provision bans the import and production of air conditioners with A3 refrigerant flammable gases, except for "portable" air conditioners with a gas amount lower than 200 grams.

Country/Region: Ukraine

Product Category: E3

Publish Date: 2025-04-23

Subject: Ukraine publish the draft resolution of ecodesign requirements for servers and data storage products

Applicable Product: Servers and data storage products

Operation Guide: It is still in the draft stage. After it is officially released, energy efficiency certification will be required, and the requirements are basically consistent with EU requirements.

Explanation: On April 23, 2025, the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development Ukraine publish the Draft Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine "On Approval of Technical Regulation on Ecodesign Requirements for Servers and Data Storage Products". This Technical Regulation has been developed based on Commission Regulation (EU)2019/424 of 15 March 2019 laying down ecodesign requirements for servers and data storage products pursuant to Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 617/2013.

Country/Region: Brazil

Product Category: HOUS

Publish Date: 2025-04-17

Subject: Brazil's Inmetro announces energy consumption calculation method for refrigerators with ice and water making equipment

Applicable Product: Refrigerator

Operation Guide: The new requirements have not been included in the current Inmetro Decree No. 577 for refrigerators. When applying for Inmetro certification for refrigerators, relevant tests can be performed according to the laboratory's requirements.

Explanation: Brazil publish the Ordinance No.223 on April 17, 2025. This ordinance show the Standard Consumption (Cp) calculation method for the refrigerator with the functionality of automatic ice maker and water and ice dispenser in the door.

Country/Region: Chile

Product Category: ITAV

Publish Date: 2025-04-16

Subject: Chile plans to unify the use of USB Type-C interface

Applicable Product: Power Supply & Part of Portable Device

Operation Guide: It is still in the draft stage. Once implemented, manufacturers and importers need to consider replacing their current products with USB Type-C interfaces.

Explanation: Chile submitted a draft on the unified use of USB Type-C interface to the WTO on April 16, 2025. The draft established universal interoperability between mobile devices and their chargers, requiring certain devices (such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops) to use USB-C ports as the charging standard. The regulation also defines technical rules based on international standards and requires suppliers to clearly indicate whether charges are included and the charging specifications of the device. The goal of this draft is to standardize the charging system of mobile devices by adopting USB-C ports to ensure interoperability between devices and their chargers. Its purpose is to strengthen consumer protection, simplify the use of chargers, and reduce electronic waste caused by the proliferation of incompatible chargers.

Country/Region: India

Product Category: RED

Publish Date: 2025-04-07

Subject: India releases Phase 6 plan for MTCTE certification scheme

Applicable Product: Part of RF devices

Operation Guide: Manufacturers or importers need to strictly implement the certification plan according to the requirements in each document, comply with the requirements of the issued documents from testing and certification to label use, and strictly comply with the documents after they are officially implemented.

Explanation: On April 7, 2025, India notified the WTO of the sixth phase of Mandatory Testing and Certification of Telecommunication Systems (MTCTE). This plan will be officially implemented on August 24, 2025, when the TEC certification plan will be implemented for the 14 categories of products listed in the document. the documents such as label usage and process requirements are also published. The 14 categories of products are as follows: 1. Cellular Customer Premises Equipment 2. Fixed Wireless Phone with VOICE and DATA Facility 3. Fixed Wireless Phone with Voice Facility only 4. Storage Area Network (SAN) Switch 5. Fabric Interconnect Switch 6. Network Security Management Equipment 7. Network Security Analytics Equipment Managed 8. Network Security Analytics Equipment Unmanaged 9. Content Security Equipment 10. DDoS Protection Equipment 11. Malware Analysis Equipment 12. Web Application Firewall 13. NGSO User Terminals 14. NGSO Integrated Gateway

Country/Region: South Africa

Product Category: RED

Publish Date: 2025-04-07

Subject: ICASA Publishes the draft National Radio Frequency Plan 2025 for Public Consultation

Applicable Product: All RF Device

Operation Guide: Manufacturer can pay attention in advance to see if the changes in the frequency band affect the product settings.

Explanation: South Africa ICASA released a draft version of the National Radio Frequency Plan 2025 on April 7, 2025, and ask for for Public Consultation. This draft version is still for the 8.3KHz to 3000GHz frequency band, and the document incorporates the decisions listed in the 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-23) and the requirements of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Country/Region: Japan

Product Category: RED

Publish Date: 2025-04-07

Subject: Japan has revised the regulations for the 5.2GHz frequency band

Applicable Product: Drone

Operation Guide: Manufacturers need to set up their products according to the requirements of the new and old regulations and complete the wireless device certification registration for the products in Japan.

Explanation: On April 7, 2025, the Japanese MIC issued a bill to amend the rules for the implementation of the Radio Waves Act and the rules for wireless devices. This change is mainly based on the changes in the regulatory requirements for the use of related technologies by drones in the 5.2GHz frequency band issued on December 18, 2024. MIC also issued a guidance document, link: https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/001003572.pdf

Country/Region: Thailand

Product Category: VEHICLE

Publish Date: 2025-04-03

Subject: Thailand plans to implement labeling scheme for some motor vehicles

Applicable Product: Motorcycles, Electric Motorcycles, Electric Bicycle, Vehicles, Electric Vehicles

Operation Guide: Relevant manufacturers can communicate with Thai importers to ensure that they can provide the required information which showed in the notification documents and correctly implement the requirements after the notification come into effect.

Explanation: Thailand issued a draft notification on April 3, 2025, planning to implement a labeling plan for motorcycles, electric motorcycles, electric bicycles, vehicles, and electric vehicles. The labels must display the content marked in the notification, such as product category, trademarks or names registered in Thailand, brake system type, etc. This notification is scheduled to be implemented after 4 months, and the specific implementation date needs to be further waited.

Country/Region: EAEU

Product Category: HOUS

Publish Date: 2025-03-21

Subject: Eurasian Economic Commission Collegium Draft Decision on amendments to the Common sanitary-epidemiological and hygienic requirements for products subject to sanitary-epidemiological supervision (control)

Applicable Product: Materials, reagents, equipment for water treatment and water purification

Operation Guide: Check whether the current equipment contains radioactive substances. If so, it is necessary to confirm with the importer in a timely manner the requirements of relevant health regulations for such substances and implement corresponding measures as required by relevant authorities.

Explanation: Eurasian Economic Commission Collegium Draft Decision on amendments to the Section 11 of the Chapter II of the Common sanitary-epidemiological and hygienic requirements for products subject to sanitary-epidemiological supervision (control).

The draft provides for the updating of the Section 11 of the Chapter II of the Common Sanitary-Epidemiological and Hygienic Requirements for Products (Goods) Subject to Sanitary-Epidemiological Supervision (Control) which regulates the requirements for products and items that are sources of ionizing radiation, including those that are generating, as well as items and goods containing radioactive substances.

Country/Region: Argentina

Product Category: E3

Publish Date: 2025-03-19

Subject: Argentina published new version of Energy Efficiency Labeling requirements

Applicable Product: Energy Efficiency Product

Operation Guide: It is only need to pay attention to the labeling requirements for energy efficiency certified products in the document. You need to use the energy efficiency label correctly and list the required information.

Explanation: Argentina report this new version of Energy Efficiency Labeling requirements to WTRO at 2025-03-19, this new requirements establishing essential requirements and characteristics for the energy efficiency labelling of new products or appliances that require the use of a power source for their operation or which consume energy for their use. Those updated files include the labelling requirements for Energy Efficiency regulated products.

Country/Region: Chile

Product Category: ITAV

Publish Date: 2025-03-05

Subject: Chile requires televisions to meet minimum technical specifications

Applicable Product: Televsion

Operation Guide: According to the requirements of the current document, an antenna must be installed next to the digital terrestrial television receiver to ensure its normal operation. The implementation of this obligation still requires communication with importers to clarify the form and installation of the product.

Explanation: On March 5, 2025, the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications issued another document to establish the minimum technical specifications that digital terrestrial television receivers (televisions) must meet. It stipulates that the implementation period of the obligation to install an antenna next to the digital terrestrial television receiver to ensure its normal operation has been postponed to March 17, 2025. However, due to the difficulties pointed out by its marketers and manufacturers' representatives on different occasions in the manufacturing and/or logistics process to properly fulfill the above obligations, it will take longer to complete, and the implementation date of the tariff will be postponed to April 17, 2025.

Country/Region: China

Product Category: LVD

Publish Date: 2025-03-03

Subject: China adjusts the control of fire protection products

Applicable Product: Emergency lighting distribution device

Operation Guide: According to current requirements, the CCC certificate of the "Emergency lighting distribution device" product will be cancelled, and the existing "fire protection product" control category needs to be promptly updated with standards and certificates.

Explanation: On March 3, 2025, the China National Certification and Accreditation Administration issued a document. According to the relevant provisions of the "Fire Protection Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Certification and Accreditation Regulations of the People's Republic of China", from the date of this announcement, the fire safety signs in the compulsory product certification catalog (belonging to the category of refuge and escape products) will no longer be subject to compulsory product certification management, and the relevant designated certification bodies should cancel the issued compulsory product certification certificates. Later, on March 31, 2025, the new version of the national standard GB 17945-2024 "Fire Emergency Lighting and Evacuation Indication System" will be officially implemented on May 1, 2025. In order to ensure the orderly implementation of the compulsory certification of relevant products, the relevant requirements are clarified as follows:
1. According to the revision of national standards, the "Description and Definition Table of the Compulsory Product Certification Catalog (Revised in 2023)" and the "Compulsory Product Certification Implementation Rules" will be officially implemented on May 1, 2025. In the annex of "Escape Products" (CNCA-C18-03:2024), "Emergency Lighting Distribution Device" under "Fire Emergency Lighting and Evacuation Indication Products" is deleted.
2. Each designated certification body shall implement the compulsory product certification of fire emergency lighting and evacuation indication systems in accordance with the requirements of the "Announcement on the Relevant Requirements for the Revision of the Standards for Compulsory Product Certification" (Announcement No. 4 of 2012 of the National Certification and Accreditation Administration) and the new national standard.

Country/Region: China

Product Category: RED

Publish Date: 2025-02-17

Subject: Notice of the Radio Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (State Radio Office) on the management of the use of walkie-talkies in the 150MHz and 400MHz frequency bands and the technical requirements of equipment

Applicable Product: Walkie-talkies

Operation Guide: It is necessary to check whether the walkie-talkie equipment produced meets the corresponding radio frequency technical requirements in accordance with this notice, and renew the license according to the equipment type license switching time.

Explanation: In order to meet the market demand for the use of walkie-talkies, the Radio Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (State Radio Office) issued the "Notice of the State Radio Office on the Management of the Use of Walkie-Talkies in the 150MHz and 400MHz Frequency Bands and the Technical Requirements of Equipment" on February 17, 2025, clarifying the use of radio frequencies, the setting and use of radio stations (stations), the management of radio transmission equipment, and radio interference protection for different types of walkie-talkies, standardizing the technical requirements of various types of walkie-talkies, such as technical systems, transmission power, frequency tolerance, and spurious emissions, and making clear requirements for the use and management of various types of walkie-talkies. In addition, the Radio Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also interpreted this regulation, which can be found in the following links: 1)https://www.miit.gov.cn/gyhxxhb/jgsj/wxdgljgjwxdbgs/zcfg/zcjd/art/2025/art_cfa5cceb1009459f88d3e3daf63c5676.html; 2)https://www.miit.gov.cn/gyhxxhb/jgsj/wxdgljgjwxdbgs/zcfg/zcjd/art/2025/art_c59118125af643e1ab702422f0660ec3.html.

Country/Region: Brazil

Product Category: RED

Publish Date: 2025-02-14

Subject: ANATEL published new Act No.2105

Applicable Product: Telecom Device

Operation Guide: All products related to this Act need to comply with the new technical specifications, and the new Act will be adopted from product design settings to certification testing.

Explanation: On March 20, 2025, Brazil notified the WTO about the implementation of Anatel's new 2105 Act. The specific content is that ANATEL published Act No. 2105, of 14 February 2025 that updates Acts No. 3151 and 3152, of June 12, 2020, which approves the technical specification to assessment conformity of Access Terminal Stations (data terminals) and Mobile Phones to include requirements for the new 5G technologies NB-NTN, RedCap (FR1) and LTE Cat 1bis, as well as normative updates for mobile phones.

Country/Region: China

Product Category: RED

Publish Date: 2025-02-14

Subject: Notice of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China on Issuing the "Radar Radio Management Regulations (Trial)"

Applicable Product: Radar Products

Operation Guide: It is necessary to check whether the radar equipment produced meets the corresponding RF technical requirements in accordance with this regulation, and renew the certificate according to the equipment type license switching time.

Explanation: The "Radar Radio Management Regulations (Trial)" issued by the Radio Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China on February 14, 2025 regulates radio management from the aspects of radar classification, frequency use, station setting, interference coordination, equipment type license, etc. This regulation will be implemented from January 1, 2026. All types of radar equipment should meet the corresponding RF technical requirements. The Radio Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will no longer accept and approve the application for model approval of radar radio transmitting equipment that is inconsistent with this regulation. For those who have obtained the model approval certificate, the model approval certificate will not be renewed after expiration. Radio management agencies at all levels will no longer accept new radar frequency use license applications and radio station (station) setting and use license applications that are inconsistent with this regulation. In addition, the Radio Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also interpreted this regulation, which can be found in the following links:

1) https://www.miit.gov.cn/gyhxxhb/jgsj/wxdgljgjwxdbgs/zcfg/zcjd/art/2025/art_2be2305e8d1b43709531b92a8b94c49d.html;

2) https://www.miit.gov.cn/gyhxxhb/jgsj/wxdgljgjwxdbgs/zcfg/zcjd/art/2025/art_fd00a85a9d7b48ad8d812749c4c593f6.html.

Country/Region: Singapore

Product Category: LVD

Publish Date: 2025-02-01

Subject: Singapore release the new Information Booklet of Consumer Protection (Safety Requirements) Regulation

Applicable Product: All Electrical and Electronic Equipment

Operation Guide: It is necessary to pay attention to the requirements for the replacement date of the old and new standards in the booklet, update the CB certificate in time, and update the Singapore certificate accordingly.

Explanation: The Singapore CPSO released a new Information Booklet of Consumer Protection (Safety Requirements) Regulation on February 1, 2025. In the new version of the booklet, in addition to updating the old and new implementation dates of some standards, it mainly adds requirements for power adapters greater than 100W. This requirement is based on the IEC 62368-1 standard and requires compliance with the IEC 62368-1 standard.

Country/Region: Japan

Product Category: LVD

Publish Date: 2025-01-31

Subject: Japan releases new version of harmonized standard list for PSE certification

Applicable Product: All Electrical and Electronic Equipment

Operation Guide: It is necessary to check the new standard list based on the standards of owned products to determine the replacement date of the old and new standards and update the PSE certificate or report in time.

Explanation: Japan METI released a new version of the coordinated standard list for PSE certification on January 31, 2025. The list marked the replacement date for some standards. PSE certificate holders need to update their PSE certificates according to the date listed in the new list.

Country/Region: India

Product Category: LITE

Publish Date: 2025-01-21

Subject: India to implement ISI certification for flashlights

Applicable Product: Flashlight

Operation Guide: Manufacturer need to check the IS 2083 standard to confirm whether the product needs to meet this standard. If it does, Manufacturer need to perform ISI certification.

Explanation: The Indian DPIIT issued a document on January 21, 2025, stating that ISI certification will be implemented for flashlights that comply with standard IS 2083. The implementation date will be determined based on the size of the company. For example, the implementation date for large companies will be 6 months after the release of the document, that is, from July 21, 2025. At the same time, the Indian BIS has included the IS 2083 standard in the ISI certification control list, which can be viewed at the link: https://www.bis.gov.in/product-certification/products-under-compulsory-certification/scheme-i-mark-scheme.

Country/Region: Morocco

Product Category: RED

Publish Date: 2025-01-20

Subject: Morocco published the new type approval decision 16/24

Applicable Product: RF Device

Operation Guide: When submitting for certification, client need to provide samples and label production according to the requirements provided by the certification body.

Explanation: Morocco published the new type approval decision 16/24 on January 20,2025. In this new decision, the regulation body ANRT may require 2 test samples while they review the application. And, ANRT will publish color requirement for the ANRT certification logo in future.