On August 19, 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued an announcement to update the energy efficiency testing procedures for external adapters (EPS). The new procedure will come into effect on September 19, 2022, and will be enforced on February 15, 2023.

On September 2, 2022, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced a public comment on 9 potential Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs), and the comment period will end on October 17, 2022, during which various stakeholders Comments can be submitted to ECHA. Substances that pass the review will be added to the official SVHC list, becoming the 28th batch of SVHC substances.

On August 29, 2022, the Automotive Industry Standards Board of India issued Amendment 2 of the second edition of AIS-156 and AIS-038 (Rev. 2), which will take effect immediately.

In accordance with the EU General Product Safety Directive (2001/95/EC), the European Commission presented a draft Commission Decision on 5 August 2022 on the safety requirements to be met by European standards for certain children\'s and related products. The draft is undergoing public consultation, and interested parties have until September 2, 2022 to submit comments accordingly.

On August 11, 2022, the U.S. Congress passed the H.R. 5313 Reese Act. This is a consumer product safety standard regarding the ingestion hazards of button or coin cells.

Attention Amazon sellers! Canada station requires ISED certification compliance information to be provided before September 30, otherwise related products will be forcibly removed from the shelves

On 3 August 2022, the UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published Bulletin 0063/22, proposing to update the list of specified standards for the UK Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011 No. 1881). This proposal is scheduled to be implemented on September 1, 2022, unless the proposal is withdrawn or amended before this date.

The G-Mark certification is used as an access certificate for products to enter the market of the 7 Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen), and its certification adopts the latest version of GSO/IEC/EN and other standards. When the standard version is updated, the transition period of the old standard is 2 years. When the transition period ends, G-Mark certification will force the adoption of the latest version of the standard. In addition, after the release of the new version of the standard, the certificate obtained based on the old version of the standard must complete the certificate renewal before the implementation date of the new version of the standard, otherwise the certificate will be suspended or revoked.