On August 22, 2025, the National Standardization Administration officially released the text content of China's first mandatory national standard GB26572-2025 "Requirements for the Restriction of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Products" for RoHS. The new standard will be officially implemented on August 1, 2027 (with a 2-year transition period). At the same time, for products produced or imported before the standard implementation date, enterprises will be given a one-year inventory product consumption period, which means that inventory products can still be sold before August 1, 2028. This mandatory standard is a fusion and improvement of two recommended standards, GB/T 26572-2011 and its first amendment, and SJ/T 11364-2024, and will fully replace the recommended standard GB/T 26572-2011 and its first amendment.
▶The main differences between the new and old standards of GB 26572 are as follows:
content | GB/T 26572-2011 | GB 26572-2025 |
Standard properties | Recommended National Standards | Mandatory national standards |
Limit the quantity of substances | 6 items：Pb、Hg、Cd、Cr6+、PBB、PBDE | 10 items：Pb、Hg、Cd、Cr6+、PBBs、PBDEs、DBP、DIBP、BBP、DEHP |
Classification Management | No classification requirements | Class I (compliant catalog product) meets the limit and labeling requirements Class II only requires identification |
Limited Requirements | 6 substances: Cd ≤ 0.01%, others ≤ 0.1% | Add 4 new requirements for adjacent benzene: DBP, DIBP, BBP, DEHP ≤ 0.1% |
Marking requirements | not specified | Content symbol (symbol) I |
Technical document preservation | not specified | Save technical support documents for at least 3 years after discontinuation |
Implement transition period | not specified | Products produced or imported before the implementation date shall be implemented from the 13th month after the implementation date of the document |
With the continuous updating of standards, enterprises are facing more and more control requirements. It is recommended that companies conduct early investigations into their supply chain, pay attention to standard updates, update product information sheets, and choose appropriate labeling methods as needed to avoid compliance risks caused by regulatory updates.
The standard will be officially implemented on August 1, 2027. ”Providing industry enterprises with 2 years of inventory product digestion time can effectively reduce the cost of RoHS control for enterprises
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