UKCA – NEW DEADLINES
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LVD | Harmonized Standards Update
On 06/17/2021, the references of the harmonized standards were updated for the following product categories: refrigeration appliances, ice cream and ice machines laboratory equipment for heating materials automatic and semi-automatic laboratory equipment for analysis and other purposes electrical equipment with the stipulated characteristics relating to electrical supply ultraviolet and infrared skin treatment devices room heating […]
Toys | Changing Threshold Values for Aniline
Aniline (CAS number 62-53-3) is classified as a category 2 carcinogen and a category 2 mutagen under Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008. According to Annex II, Part III, point 5(a) of Directive 2009/48/EC, category 2 carcinogens, such as aniline, may be used in toys in individual concentrations equal to or less than the established applicable concentration. […]
Toys | Changing Threshold Values for Aniline
Published update to the list of harmonized standards within the electromagnetic compatibility directive 2014/30/EC, with regard to switchgear and switching elements for control circuits and multimedia equipment. ENFORCEMENT DECISION (EU) 2021/455 Annex I to Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1326 is amended as follows: 1) Entry 2 is replaced by the following: N.o Referência da norma «2. […]
PPE | Update of Harmonized Standards
With the publication of the Implementation Decision (EU) 2021/395 the harmonized standards for the following categories of equipment were updated: electrostatic properties of protective clothing protective clothing for firefighters and motorcyclists protective clothing for snowboarding protective clothing used by workers who apply pesticides and by workers who re-enter the space treated with those pesticides, enhanced […]
RoHS – Category 11 Restrictions
«45 Lead diazide, lead styphnate, lead dipicramate, orange-minimum (lead tetroxide) and lead dioxide, in electrical and electronic explosive initiators for civil (professional) use, and barium chromate in the retarding charges of electrical initiators of explosives for civil (professional) use It applies to category 11 and expires on April 20, 2026.” Some essential components of electrical […]
Harmonized Standards 09.2018 | ESP, LVD, RED
Published on September 14, 2018, the new lists of harmonized standards for the following products: Simple Pressure Vessels Harmonized Standards under Directive 2014/39/EU on the harmonization of Member States’ legislation concerning the making available of simple pressure vessels on the market. Access here. Pressure Equipment Harmonized Standards under Directive 2014/68/EU on the harmonization of Member […]
Published Evaluation Report of the Defective Products Liability Directive
The Directive on Liability for Defective Products (Directive 85/374/EEC, hereinafter ‘the Directive’) has ensured, for more than three decades, that producers assume responsibility for the manufacture of defective products vis-à-vis consumers. When adopted in 1985, the directive was a bold and modern instrument that required significant adaptations to the civil codes of the Member States. […]
ESP | Pressure Equipment & ATEX | Equipment for explosive atmospheres
On 01-09-2017, two new diplomas entered into force within the “new legislative framework”, covered by the so-called free movement package, diplomas that transpose European Union Directives drawn up under the common framework of general principles and reference provisions of legislation of Union harmonization, provided for in the Decision No. 768/2008/EC of 9/07 which aims to complement Regulation […]
Ecological Labeling: New Regulation
Regulation establishing an energy efficiency labeling scheme and replacing current legislation (Directive 2010/30/EU) was adopted by the Commission. Regulation EU No. 2017/1369. The energy labeling legislative framework allows customers to be more aware of the energy efficiency and energy consumption of household appliances (such as dishwashers, televisions, refrigerators, etc.), which will help them to reduce […]
