# Presentation: 689823

## IEC TC111 & ASTM F40 Technical Committee Update

- China CNCA / US DOC
-  Round Table Discussion
- Beijing, China
- Jan. 20, 2006
- Presented By Scott MacLeod

## IEC TC111

- “Environmental Standardization for Electrical and Electronic Products and Systems”
- To prepare guidelines, basic and horizontal standards, including technical reports, in the environmental area, ..
- To liaise with product committees ..
- To liaise with ACEA and ISO/TC 207
- To monitor.. EMC and EMF aspects are excluded from the scope.
- _[http://www.iec.ch/tctools/dashbd-e.htm/](http://www.iec.ch/tctools/dashbd-e.htm/)_

**Notes:**
From SMB/3151/R STRATEGIC POLICY STATEMENT
Scope:
Standardization of environmental aspects concerns:
•To prepare the necessary guidelines, basic and horizontal standards, including technical reports,
in the environmental area, in close cooperation with product committees of IEC, which remain
autonomous in dealing with the environmental aspects relevant to their products.
•To liaise with product committees in the elaboration of environmental requirements of product
standards in order to foster common technical approaches and solutions for similar problems and
thus assure consistency in IEC standards.
•To liaise with ACEA and ISO TC 207.
•To monitor closely the corresponding regional standardization activities worldwide in order to
become a focal point for discussions concerning standardization.
• EMC and EMF aspects are excluded from the scope.

## IEC TC111

- Organized October, 2004
- 20 Participating Countries
- 	(Including China & US)
- 6 Observer Countries
- Liaisons
- ISO/TC 207,IEC/SC 17B, IEC/TC 3,
- IEC/TC 108, IEC/SC 62A
- Next Main Committee Meeting June 20 - 22, Redmond, Washington USA

**Notes:**
From SMB/3151/R STRATEGIC POLICY STATEMENT
History:
The Italian National Committee proposed to SMB on 2004-02-18 to setting up a Technical
Committee on Environmental Standardization for Electrical and Electronic Products and Systems.  The SMB approved the proposal (Proposal for a new field of technical activity for Environmental Standardization for Electrical and Electronic Products and Systems) on 2004-10-11 via SMB voting and consequently the new TC 111 has been created. The SMB appointed the Italian NC as Secretariat at the SMB meeting on 2004-10-18 in Seoul.  The first meeting of TC 111 has been held in Milan on 22 and 23 March 2005.  The purpose of the new TC is to deal with environmental standardization aspects, to develop horizontal standards on environmental aspects for electrical and electronic products and systems.  IEC has to handle this strategic topic in a coordinated and complete way through a horizontal TC, so that the needs of the market and of the social stakeholders are duly taken into account.
Liaisons:
ISO/TC 207, “Environmental management “
IEC/SC 17B “LOW-VOLTAGE SWITCHGEAR AND CONTROLGEAR”
IEC/TC 3 “INFORMATION STRUCTURES, DOCUMENTATION AND GRAPHICAL SYMBOLS”
IEC/TC 108 “SAFETY OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT WITHIN THE FIELD OF AUDIO/VIDEO,
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY”
IEC/SC 62A “Common Aspects of Electrical Equipment used in Medical Practice”.

## IEC TC111

- “Top Down” Supply Chain Approach
- Working Groups (WG‘s)
- WG1 on Materials Declaration (US)
- WG2 on Environmental Design (Japan)
- WG3 on Test Methods (Germany)
- WG4 on Environmental Information (France)

##      IEC TC111 – WG Status

- Materials Declaration – NP Circulated 1/13/06, Voting Closes 4/14/06
- Environmental Design – 2nd WD in process, CD Target April 2006, Next Meet in Bangkok 1/25-26
- Test Methods – Updates to GC/MS & XRF Chapters, CDV and 2nd IIS Target End of Feb., Next Meet in Stuttgart 2/10-11.
- Deca-BDE questionnaire issued 1/13/06
- Italian NC proposed immediate endorsement of future CD /CDV as European Technical Specification to CENELEC (Decision in Feb.?).
- Environmental Information – NP Expected shortly

**Notes:**
Material Declaration NP Scope:

Scope (as defined in ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2, 6.2.1)
The scope of this Project is to develop an international standard to describe the form and procedure relating to the declarations of materials in products, for input into environmentally conscious design and other business needs. Such material declarations are provided by suppliers of components, subparts, products and products throughout the supply chain. The term “product” includes raw materials, components, subassemblies and assemblies. This standard shall apply to products and subparts that are supplied to manufacturers for incorporation into their products. It does not apply to process chemicals, unless those process chemicals constitute part of the finished product or subpart. It applies to business-to-business transactions, where for environmental considerations it is an input for environmentally conscious design. This standard shall be applicable to all product types and is not sector-specific. This scope does not include environmental information. The issues of coverage for packaging is to be decided by the working group.

WG2 Info from:
Regards, 
Mary Burgoon 
Program Manager, Global Standards & Trade 
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Scott, 

It was a pleasure to talk to you today regardign the subject meeting.  As we discussed, here is a brief synopsis including status of the work being in done in IEC TC111 WG2: 

The next meeting, the 3rd meeting of the WG, will be held in Bangkok Thailand, January 25-26, 2006.  The WG is currently working on WD2 and hope to work through the revisions and comments and compile the CD by April 2006.   

The title of the document is IEC 62430--Environmentally Conscious Design for Electrical and Electronic Products and Systems. 

Currently, the WG is comprised of 14 active members, i.e. those that regularly participate in meetings, and 14 members who have not as yet participated in the WG meetings.   

I am attaching for your review  the WG2 policy statement drafted during the last WG2 meeting in Milan. This presentation was made at the IEC TC111 GM in Capetown in October.

Also, a Rockwell Automation colleague of mine will also be at the meeting Beijing; his name is ChunBiao Zhu. 

If I can be of further assistance, please don't hesitate to contact me. 

## ASTM International

- More than 30,000 members world-wide
- Total non-US membership:   5,681 = 18.6%
- # of Countries represented: 125
- % of ASTM Standard Sales Outside US: 42%
- # of ASTM standards embedded in non-US countries: Approximately 3,000
- # of MOU’s signed with National Standards Bodies (NSB) of Developing Countries: 44

## ASTM TC F40

- “Declarable Substances In Materials”
- 	.. the development of standards for the evaluation of materials/products relative to RoHS (& similar) requirements. The Committee will encourage research in this field and sponsor symposia, workshops, and publications to facilitate the development of such standards. The Committee will promote liaison with other ASTM Committees and other organizations with mutual interests.
- _[http://www.astm.org/](http://www.astm.org/)_

## ASTM TC F40

- Organized January, 2005
- Membership: 149 Individuals & Organizations
- Countries Represented: 12
- 	(Bolivia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea Republic of (South), Mexico, Netherlands, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States of America)
- Next Committee Week Meeting April 26 –28, Toronto, ON CAN

## ASTM TC F40

- “Bottom Up” Supply Chain Approach
- Technical Subcommittees
- F40.01 Test Methods
- F40.02 Management Practices & Guides
- F40.03 Monitoring of Legislation & Regulation
- F40.04 Existing Document Research/Liaison
- F40.91 Terminology

## ASTM TC F40 – Work Items

- _WK9866_ Standard Test Methods for Analysis of Tin-Based Solder Alloys and Pastes for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony and Bismuth Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry
- _WK9895_ Standard Test Method to Screen Materials for Restricted Substances
- _WK9114_ Standard Practice for Declaration of Conformance with Materials Content Requirement
- _WK9115_ Standard Guide for Risk Assessment when Assessing Conformance to or Compliance with Requirements
- _WK7381_ Standard Terminology Relating to Declarable Substances in Materials

## Summary

- Common Goals
- IEC TC111 “Top Down” Supply Chain Approach
- ASTM TC F40 “Bottom Up” Supply Chain Approach
- Consensus Standard Development
- International Participation
- Strong Technical Representation