The Taiwan Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI) in August announced their schedule for bringing product categories into scope of their RoHS-like regulation (CNS 15663), as reported by ChemicalWatch. The regulation was announced via a WTO notification in mid-2015 but the actual compliance dates were still up in the air at that time. The following products and compliance dates have been reported:

• 1 December 2016 – drinking fountains;
• 1 July 2017 – IT equipment, including automatic data processing machines, printers, photocopying machines, televisions and monitors. Also proposed for this date are projectors and lighting equipment, such as fluorescent tubes; and
• 1 January 2018 – word processors, such as typewriters and cashiers (43 items in total) and wireless items, such as keyboards, mice and scanners (48 items in total).

The list of IT products for 1 July 2017 date is generally aligned with the scope proposed in the July 2015 WTO notification plus the extension notified in September 2015 (reported in the July 2016 and October 2015 ECD Environmental Reports). Certain accessory products and other long life-cycle products such as typewriters and cash registers were given additional time. The inclusion of drinking fountains in the timeline is presumably linked to recent concerns and regulations related to Lead (Pb) in drinking water faucets.

The Taiwan regulation follows the EU RoHS Directive in excluding certain types of products and parts such as batteries and military equipment.

The RoHS requirements are implemented under the Taiwan “Commodity Inspection Act”, referencing Taiwan BSMI standard CNS 15663 “Guidance to reduction of the chemical substances in electrical and electronic equipments” and in particular, Section 5 “marking of presence” .

The Taiwan RoHS regulation requires specific registration, marking, labeling and testing requirements as specified in CNS 15663.  These are somewhat aligned with the China RoHS requirements, but are still different.