UPS Users: Beware! One Oversight Could Lead to Electric Shock Hazard!
When your UPS is discharging stored energy, have you considered – could lethal voltage remain at its input terminals?
Anbotek Lab Data Reveals: Shock incidents due to failed feed protection surged 67% in 2024! How to ensure sa...
Electrical Equipment Safety System (EESS) Information Bulletin 24-067: Australia and New Zealand’s Electrical Equipment Safety System (EESS) has issued Information Bulletin No. 24-067. This bulletin clarifies compliance requirements under the AS/NZS 3112 standard for devices with in...
On 03 June 2025, the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) published the amendment (EU) 2025/1090 to REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, which mainly amends Appendix 17 (Annex XVII) by adding new item 80 N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAC) and item 81 N-ethylpyrrolidone ( N,N-Dimethylacetamide (DM...
On November 25, 2024, the EU formally approved ETSI EN 301 893 V2.2.1, with mandatory enforcement required by February 29, 2028. During the transition period, as this version has not yet been cited in the EU Official Journal (OJ), certification testing is still recommended based on the pr...
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May 12, 2025 marked a historic moment for Anbotek! A review panel from APPLUS, a globally recognized certification authority, conducted an on-site audit of Anbotek’s Cybersecurity Laboratory. After rigorous evaluation, the laboratory unanimously passed the EN 18031 s...
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has quietly updated its lithium battery standards! The 2025 edition of IEC 60086-4 primarily targets certain special types of disposable lithium batteries (e.g., spiral-wound over-discharge batteries). However, for most companies—“St...
The European Commission adopted Supplementary Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30 in 2022, explicitly requiring radio equipment to comply with cybersecurity, privacy protection, and anti-fraud requirements.
▍Regulatory Timeline
August 2024: Publication of supporting standard EN 18031, detailing cy...
On March 07, 2025, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) officially published version 3.0 of the Basic Standard for Electrostatic Discharge Immunity Testing, IEC 61000-4-2:2025 ed3.0, which replaces IEC 61000-4-2:2008 ed2.0, published in 2008, with a stabilization date of 2...
On April 18, 2023, the European Commission (EC) published a new version of the eco-design regulation (EU) 2023/826 – Eco-design requirements for the energy consumption of electrical and electronic equipment for domestic and office use in switch-off mode, standby mode and network st...
On 18 February 2025, the European Commission published on its official website a draft amendment to Annex I of the POPs Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 proposing to revise the limit values for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) (including tetra-, penta-, hexa-, he...
European Union
I.Directive Issuance
The European Commission put forward a proposal to harmonize charging interfaces in 2019 and formally published a revised Directive Directive (EU) 2022/2380 on universal chargers through the Official Journal in December 2022 to complement 3.3(a) of the RED Direc...
On January 21, 2025, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) added 5 substances under evaluation to the thirty-third batch of Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC) candidate list. As a result, the SVHC candidate list was officially updated to include 247 substances.
The newly added SVHC (Substance...