On March 7, 2025, the Canadian Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) launched a public consultation on the technical and operational requirements of millimeter wave band, and stakeholders can submit their opinions before May 30, 2025.

On January 30th, 2025, the European Commission announced in its official journal \"Office Journal\" (hereinafter referred to as OJ) that the series of EN 18031 standards have been included in the harmonized standards of the Directive 2014/53/EU, which indicates that this series of standards will become an important basis for the network security compliance of radio equipment in the EU.

On November 13th, 2024, the Ministry of Industry (MoI) of Indonesia promulgated the Law No.75/2024, which made it mandatory that all audio and video products sold in Indonesia (both imported and locally produced) must comply with the SNI IEC 62368-1:2014 standard, replacing the previous Law No.15 in 2018. The new regulations will come into effect on June 2, 2025, aiming at improving product quality, ensuring consumer safety and health, and enhancing the international competitiveness of Indonesia\'s audio-visual industry.

Recently, Amazon USA released a heavy policy update: from February 18, 2025, all products on sale must pass DOE (U.S. Department of Energy) energy efficiency certification, non-compliant products will be forcibly removed from the shelves, and products with a valid model missing in the product model field will also be discontinued. Thereafter, only products that meet the DOE standards are allowed to be sold.

2025年2月28日，歐盟化學(xué)品管理局（ECHA）公布了新一批SVHC咨詢物質(zhì)清單，3項(xiàng)潛在的SVHC物質(zhì)展開公眾評(píng)議，公眾評(píng)議將于2025年4月14日結(jié)束，在此期間各利益相關(guān)方均可向ECHA提交評(píng)議意見。ECHA將會(huì)對公眾提交的反饋意見進(jìn)行評(píng)議，如這3項(xiàng)物質(zhì)通過評(píng)議將被加入SVHC正式候選清單。

On February 18th, 2025, the EU issued the revised draft of POPs Regulation (EU) 2019/1021, proposing to revise the limits of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). The draft is currently in the public consultation period, and stakeholders can submit feedback before March 18, 2025. The final control requirements are subject to the final resolution of the European Commission.

On February 18th, 2025, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) added n-hexane to the intention list of SVHC. ECHA is expected to launch a public comment on this substance in September, 2025. If the comment is passed, it will be formally included in the candidate list of SVHC.

On January 21st, 2025, ECHA officially announced the inclusion of five substances in the list of SVHC substances. So far, the EU SVHC candidate list has been officially updated to 247 items.