China China reports on use status of public reporting platform for China RoHS

China reports on use status of public reporting platform for China RoHS

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China reported on August 17, 2020 on the use status of the public service platform for the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Products (China RoHS; as of July 31, 2020).

In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Administrative Measures for the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Products (Decree No. 32 of 2016, eight departments including MIIT) and Implementation Arrangements for Conformity Assessment System for the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Products (Public Notice of the State Administration for Market Regulation No. 23 of 2019), the conformity assessment is required for 12 major products, including refrigerators, washing machines and televisions, shipped or imported on or after November 1, 2019, and the results must be submitted to the public service platform.

The China RoHS Public Service Platform, jointly established by the State Administration for Market Regulation and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, was officially launched in December 2019. The platform is used for the management of conformity assessment information, including the integrated management of the assessment’s published results. It is equipped with functions such as submission of conformity assessment information, publication and search, statistical analysis and information dissemination. As of the end of July 2020, a total of 9,459 pieces of conformity assessment information of 14,080 products had been uploaded to the platform by 934 companies in total.

The figure below shows the number of products uploaded to the public service platform by product type.

The figure below shows the number of products uploaded to the public service platform by conformity assessment type.

 

The number of products uploaded to the public service platform by conformity assessment type

Self-declared
10,304

Third-party assessed
3,776

The original text of the report can be viewed at the following link (in simplified Chinese):
http://www.miit.gov.cn/n1146285/n1146352/n3054355/n3057542/n3057545/c8055242/content.html

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CHEN Yang

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CHEN Yang