08 Electrical, electronic products that must be ensured the permissible content limitation in Vietnam

09:56, 15/08/2011

Electrical, electronic products that must be ensured the permissible content limitation in Vietnam are specified in Circular 30/2011/TT-BCT on temporarily the permissible content limitation of some toxic chemicals in the electronic, electrical products, issued by the Ministry of Industry and Trade on October 10 August 2011.

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Article 4 of Circular 30/2011/TT-BCT stipulates that electrical, electronic products circulated on the market of Vietnam must be ensured the permissible content limitation of some toxic chemicals specified in Annex 2 attached to this Circular, including the following product groups:

- Big size appliances.

- Small size appliances.

- Information technology and communications equipment.

- Consumption devices.

- Lighting Equipment.

- Electrical, electronic tools (except for the big, fixed tools for industrial use).

- Toys, equipment of entertainment, and sports.

- Automatic measuring instruments.

At the same time, toxic chemicals limited in the electronic, electrical products

- Toxic chemicals limited in the electrical, electronic products include the chemicals: Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), Chromium valence 6 (Cr6 +), polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE).

- Content of hazardous chemicals in the electrical, electronic products circulated on the market of Vietnam are not exceeded the permissible limitation specified in the Annex 1, except for the cases specified in Annex 3 enclosed hereof.

- An electrical, electronic product is considered to comply with content limitation of toxic chemicals if all homogeneous materials constituting such product comply with the content limitation of toxic chemicals.

- When having no respective Vietnam Regulation, to assess the content of hazardous substances in the electrical, electronic product, temporarily apply the existing standard IEC 62321: Electric technical Products - Determination of the threshold of six chemicals regulated (the English name is Electrotechnical products - Determination of levels of six regulated substances).

More details can be found in Circular 30/2011/TT-BCT, which comes into force from September 23, 2011.

Thuy Tram

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