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UL1973 CSDS Proposal is Soliciting Comments
On May 21, 2021, UL official website released the latest proposal content of UL1973 battery standard for stationary, vehicle auxiliary power supply and light rail (LER) applications. The deadline for comments is July 5, 2021. The following is the 35 proposals: 1. Testing of Modules during the sh...Read more -
EU ‘AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE’MANDATORY SOON
The EU product safety regulations EU 2019/1020 will come into effect on July 16, 2021. The regulation requires that the products (ie CE certified products) that are applicable to the regulations or directives in Chapter 2 Article 4-5 must have a authorized representative located in...Read more -
MIC CONFIRMED NO PERFORMANCE TEST
Vietnam MIC issued an announcement Circular 01/2021/TT-BTTTT on May 14, 2021, and made a final decision on the performance test requirements that were previously controversial. The announcement clearly pointed out that the lithium batteries for notebooks, tablets, and mobile phones that are appl...Read more -
Important! MCM is recognized by CCS and CGC
In order to further meet the diversified certification needs of customers’ battery products and enhance the endorsement strength of the products, through the unremitting efforts of MCM, at the end of April, we have successively obtained China Classification Society (CCS) laboratory accredi...Read more -
Lately released standards
From those standard websites like IEC and Chinese government., we found there are few standards related to batteries and its equipment are released, among them those China’s industry standards are in the process for approval, any comments are still acceptable. See below list: In order to keep u...Read more -
South Korea releases draft KC62368-1 and seeks comments
On April 19, 2021, Korean Agency for Technology and Standards issued a KC62368-1 draft and seek for opinions through the Announcement 2021-133. The general content is as follows: 1. Standard① based on IEC 62368-1, Audio/video, information and communication equipment – Part 1: Safety requirement...Read more -
Vietnam-The mandatory scope of lithium battery will be extended
In 2019, the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam issued a draft of a new batch of mandatory lithium battery products, but it has not yet been officially released. MCM has recently received the latest news about this draft. The original draft has been revised and is scheduled to be subm...Read more -
Energy storage battery safety requirements – Mandatory Plan
On March 25, 2021, the ministry of industry and information technology said according to the overall arrangement of standardization work, an approval of aircraft tire and other 11 mandatory national standards projects announced that the deadline is April 25, 2021, which involves the stand...Read more -
Vietnam Battery Standard Revision Draft
Recently Vietnam released the revision draft of the Battery Standard, from which,in addition to the safety requirement of the mobile phone, table computer and laptop (Vietnam local testing or MIC recognized labs), the performance testing requirement is added (accept the report issued by any org...Read more -
Vietnam MIC released a new version of lithium battery standard
On July 9, 2020, the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) issued official document No. 15/2020 / TT-BTTTT, which officially promulgated the new technical regulation for lithium batteries in handheld devices (mobile phones, tablets and laptops) : QCVN 101:2020 / BTTTT, which will take...Read more -
Malaysia Battery Testing & Certification Requirement Is Coming, Are You Ready?
The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs of Malaysia announced that mandatory testing and certification requirements for Secondary Batteries would be effective from Jan. 1st, 2019. Meanwhile SIRIM QAS has been authorized as the only certification body to implement the certification. D...Read more -
Change in BIS CRS process – SMART Registration (CRS)
BIS launched the Smart Registration on April 3rd, 2019. Mr. A. P. Sawhney (Secretary MeitY), Mrs. Surina Rajan (DG BIS), Mr. C. B. Singh (ADG BIS), Mr. Varghese Joy (DDG BIS) and Ms. Nishat S Haque (HOD-CRS) were the dignitaries on the stage. The event was also attended by other MeitY, BIS, CDAC...Read more