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This standard is under the jurisdiction of SAC/TC 297 the National Technical Committee on Environmental Standardization for Electrical and Electronic Products and Systems of Standardization Administration of China.
Introduction
With the in-depth implementation of the relevant policies and regulations on the restriction of the use of hazardous substances in electronic and electrical products in China, Chinese enterprises have continuously strengthened the internal management of the organization and actively developed green design products to ensure that the products meet the relevant regulations, standards and customer requirements on the restriction of the use of hazardous substances.
The purpose of formulating this standard is to provide method guidelines for enterprises to evaluate whether the products meet the policies, regulations or customer requirements for restricting the use of hazardous substances in electronic and electrical products.
Guideline of conformity assessment for hazardous substances in electronic and electrical products
1 Scope
This standard specifies the procedures, contents and methods for organization assessing of the conformity of the restriction of hazardous substances in electronic and electrical products.
This standard is applicable to the conformity assessment for hazardous substances in electronic and electrical products carried out by the organizations.
Note: Organizations mainly refer to producers of electronic and electrical products.
2 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
GB T 26572 -2011 Requirements on concentration limits for certain restricted substances in electrical and electronic products
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
3.1
organization
group of people and facilities with an arrangement of responsibilities, authorities and relationships
Example: Company, corporation, firm, enterprise, institution, charitable organization, agent, association, or parts or combination thereof.
3.2
producer
natural or legal person responsible for the design and manufacture of the products, in whose name or with whose trademark the products are put on the market, or who actually produced the products
3.3
electronic and electrical product; EEP
equipment and supporting products, including materials, components, parts and/or complete machines, that rely on current or electromagnetic fields for operation or is intended to generate, transmit and measure current and electromagnetic fields, with the rated working voltage not exceeding 1,500 V for direct current and not exceeding 1,000 V for alternating current
Note: It is revised from the definition 2.1.1 in SJ/T 11468-2014.
3.4
hazardous substances
substances contained in electronic and electrical products, which are harmful to people, animals, plants and the environment
[SJ/T 11468-2014, Definition 2.2.3]
3.5
restricted substances
substances required by laws and regulations or customers to be under restricted use in electronic and electrical products
[GB/T 26572-2011, Definition 3.1]
3.6
restricted substances exception
technical application of certain restricted substances contained in electronic and electrical products, for which, due to the limitations of technical or economic factors, laws and regulations do not stipulate or relax the limit requirements of such restricted substances within a certain period of time
[SJ/T 11468-2014, Definition 2.2.10]
4 General
4.1 Conformity assessment for hazardous substances in electronic and electrical products includes the following 4 procedures:
a) evaluating the risk of hazardous substances in electronic and electrical products;
b) collecting the required information and supporting documents based on the assessment results;
c) evaluating the quality and credibility of the supporting documents collected in b) to implement the assessment;
d) preparing the declaration of conformity of hazardous substances in electronic and electrical products.
The process of conformity assessment is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 Process of conformity assessment for hazardous substances in electronic and electrical products
4.2 In case of the assessment for a category or a series of product, the requirements specified in Clause 5 shall apply to each product of such category or series.
5 Conformity assessment
5.1 Risk evaluation for hazardous substances in electronic and electrical product
The organization shall identify the risk factors of hazardous substances being mixed into the product at various stages of the product life cycle, especially at such stages as product design, procurement and process manufacturing, and shall evaluate the risk level of hazardous materials.
Note: The risk identification and evaluation for hazardous substances in products shall be carried out in accordance with SJ/T 11467 or by using the methods approved by other industries or organizations.
Foreword i
Introduction ii
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 General
5 Conformity assessment
5.1 Risk evaluation for hazardous substances in electronic and electrical product
5.2 Preparation of supporting documents necessary for conformity assessment
5.3 Conformity assessment of product
5.4 Preparation of the declaration of conformity on the restriction of hazardous substances
6 Preservation of assessment results
Annex A (Informative) Example of process management documents with respect to the restriction of hazardous substances
Annex B (Informative) Example of declaration of conformity for restriction of hazardous substances in electronic and electrical products
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