On September 20, 2022, California signed the AB 2208 Act, which will phase out and prohibit the sale of mercury-containing fluorescent lamps in California. From January 1, 2024, spiral or bayonet compact fluorescent lamps shall not be sold in California as newly manufactured products; From January 1, 2025, pin type compact fluorescent lamps and linear fluorescent lamps shall not be sold in California as newly manufactured products.

[Attention] The Bureau of Standards of the Ministry of Trade and Industry (DTI-BPS) has listed several international standards for primary batteries as Philippine national standards!

On December 9, 2022, the European Parliament and the Council reached an interim political agreement to comprehensively revise the EU battery rules. This regulation aims to make all batteries put on the EU market more sustainable, recyclable and safe. The agreement is based on the proposal of the European Commission in December 2020 and aims to solve the social, economic and environmental problems related to all types of batteries.

On June 26, 2020, the European Union issued (EU) Regulation 2020/878 in its official gazette, revising the requirements of Annex II of REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/200 on the preparation of safety data sheets (SDS). This revised regulation will come into force on January 1, 2021 and will be directly applicable to EU member states. Considering that the update of SDS may impose burden on enterprises, the revised regulations provide enterprises with a 2-year transition period, that is, before December 31, 2022, enterprises can still provide SDS in accordance with the requirements of the revised regulations (EU) 2015/830 issued in 2015 in Annex II of REACH regulations. However, from January 1, 2023, enterprises must provide new versions of SDS in accordance with the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2020/878.

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On October 28, 2022, the Ministry of Heavy Industry of the Indian Government issued the latest notice of extension of the \"2020 Electrical Equipment (Quality Control) Directive\", which stipulated that the implementation date of BIS India registration for the following electrical equipment products will be extended to May 10, 2023.

On December 1, China Quality Certification Center issued a notice on the implementation of new standards and implementation rules for mobile power certification (001046 category) for portable digital equipment.

On November 28, 2022, the Ministry of Electronic Information (Meity) of India held a seminar on updating the standards of information technology, audio-visual equipment and communication equipment. The seminar mainly covers the following four topics:1. A new safety requirement IS/IEC 62368 (Part 1): 2018 will be issued;2. Add EMI/EMC test requirements;3. Mobile device security guidelines/instructions will be issued;4. It is proposed to issue a separate product category for AR/VR/MR devices.