Amendment to Model Regulations,
Lithium,

▍What is TISI Certification?

TISI is short for Thai Industrial Standards Institute, affiliating to Thailand Industry Department. TISI is responsible for formulating the domestic standards as well as participating in international standards formulation and supervising the products and qualified assessment procedure to ensure the standard compliance and recognition. TISI is a governmental authorized regulatory organization for compulsory certification in Thailand. It is also responsible for formation and management of standards, lab approval, personnel training and product registration. It is noted that there is no non-governmental compulsory certification body in Thailand.

There is voluntary and compulsory certification in Thailand. TISI logos (see Figures 1 and 2) are allowed to use when products meet the standards. For products that have not yet been standardized, TISI also implements product registration as a temporary means of certification.

▍Compulsory Certification Scope

The compulsory certification covers 107 categories, 10 fields, including: electrical equipment, accessories, medical equipment, construction materials, consumer goods, vehicles, PVC pipes, LPG gas containers and agricultural products. Products beyond this scope are fall within the voluntary certification scope. Battery is compulsory certification product in TISI certification.

Applied standard: TIS 2217-2548 (2005)

Applied batteries：Secondary cells and batteries(containing alkaline or other non-acid electrolytes – safety requirements for portable sealed secondary cells, and for batteries made from them, for use in portable applications)

License issuance authority:  Thai Industrial Standards Institute

▍Why MCM?

● MCM cooperates with factory audit organizations, laboratory and TISI directly, capable to provide best certification solution for clients.

● MCM possesses 10 years abundant experience in battery industry, capable to provide professional technical support.

● MCM provides one-stop bundle service to help clients enter into multiple markets (not only Thailand included) successfully with simple procedure.

Applicable scope: UN38.3 is not only applicable to lithium-ion batteries, but also sodium-ion batteries
Some description contained “Sodium-ion batteries” are added with “Sodium-ion batteries” or deleted of “Lithium-ion”.Add a table of test sample size: Cells either on standalone transportation or as components of batteries are not required to undergo T8 enforced discharge test.
It is suggested for enterprises which plan to manufacture sodium-ion batteries to pay earliest attention to relevant regulations. By such, effective measures can be taken to cope with regulations upon regulation enforcement, and smooth transportation can be guaranteed. MCM will constantly look into the regulation and standards of sodium-ion batteries, to provide requirement information to clients in timely manner.
Link:BSN (Indonesian National Standards has issued a Plan National Technical Regulation Program (PNRT) 2022. The safety requirement of portable power bank using lithium-based secondary battery as a power source will be included in the list of certification program.
Power bank certificate testing standard will regard SNI 8785:2019 Lithium-ion power bank-Part: General safety requirements as testing standard, which refers to IEC standard: IEC62133-2, IEC60950-1, IEC60695-11-10, IEC60730-1, IEC 62321-8 and Indonesian National Standards: SNI IEC 62321:2015, and the scope of application is power bank with output voltage is less than or equal to 60V and energy less than or equal to 160Wh.