Organizations
BDI: Federation of German Industries
BDI
The umbrella association of German industry. It speaks for industry across all sectors and issues guidance and implementation help on regulation, including chemicals and product compliance.
ReadCENELEC: European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
CENELEC
The European standards body for electrotechnical standards. It turns many IEC standards into European Norms and works alongside CEN and ETSI.
ReadDIN: German Institute for Standardization
DIN
Germany's national standards body. When an international standard is adopted in Germany it gains a 'DIN EN' prefix, for example DIN EN IEC 63000.
ReadDKE: Germany's Electrotechnical Standards Commission
DKE
Germany's national commission for electrotechnical standardisation. Its committee DKE/K 135 channels German input into the IEC 62474 material-declaration work.
ReadECHA: European Chemicals Agency
ECHA
The EU agency in Helsinki that runs the main chemicals regulations. It keeps the REACH Candidate List, the SCIP database and the C&L Inventory.
ReadEPA: United States Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
The US federal agency for environmental protection. It runs the Toxic Substances Control Act and much of US chemicals and environmental law.
ReadIAEG: International Aerospace Environmental Group
IAEG
A group of aerospace manufacturers and suppliers that maintains the Aerospace and Defence Declarable Substance List and shared guidance for material declarations in aerospace.
ReadIEC: International Electrotechnical Commission
IEC
The global standards body for electrical, electronic and related technologies. It publishes the IEC 62474, IEC 62321 and IEC 63000 standards that sit behind electronics compliance.
ReadIEC/TC 111: Environmental Standardization for Electrotechnical Products
IEC/TC 111
The IEC technical committee responsible for environmental standards for electrical and electronic products and systems. Its work includes the material-declaration standard IEC 62474.
ReadIPC: Association Connecting Electronics Industries
IPC
The global electronics-manufacturing trade association behind the IPC-175x family of material-declaration data-exchange standards.
ReadISO: International Organization for Standardization
ISO
The global standards body for almost everything outside the purely electrical domain. It partners with the IEC on joint material-declaration work like IEC/ISO 82474-1.
ReadRMI: Responsible Minerals Initiative
RMI
An industry initiative that maintains the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template, the Extended Minerals Reporting Template for cobalt and mica, and a smelter assessment programme. Companies use its templates to collect origin and smelter data through the supply chain.
ReadUNECE: UN Economic Commission for Europe
UNECE
A United Nations regional commission. It hosts the air-pollution convention and its Aarhus Protocol, and develops the Globally Harmonised System for classifying and labelling chemicals.
ReadUNEP: UN Environment Programme
UNEP
The United Nations body for the environment. It hosts several of the global chemical and waste treaties that the EU then puts into its own law.
ReadVDE: Association for Electrical, Electronic & IT Technologies
VDE
A major German technical association for electrical engineering. It co-runs the DKE standards commission and lends its mark to German electrotechnical standards through VDE numbers.
ReadZVEI: German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association
ZVEI
The German electrical and electronics industry association. It is an active source of practical guidance on RoHS, REACH and material-declaration practice.
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