An article about the application and flexibility of material declarations (IEC 62474 in particular) was published in the April 2014 issue of In Compliance magazine. The article titled “The Power of IEC 62474 for Product Compliance and Eco-design” discusses the industry need to identify regulated substances in EEE products and the value of material declarations to assess and document product compliance. EN 50581 – the RoHS 2 harmonized standard for technical documentation – specifically references IEC 62474 because the material declaration standard was written to provide manufacturers with sufficient information to calculate product conformity to substance regulations.
The article addresses such topics as:
- The Market Need for Material Declarations
- How material content of products may be used for environmentally conscious design (ECD) (aka eco-design)
- The role of material declaration data for RoHS 2 compliance
- A systemic and flexible approach for REACH SVHCs
- Challenges with material declaration
- How IEC 62474 helps organizations obtain material declaration data
- An industry standard declarable substance list
- Key functionality, flexibility and power of IEC 62474
- How IEC 62474 material declarations allow conformity to be calculated
- Keeping the Declarable Substance List up to date
The article is available at the In Compliance website.