G/TBT/N/AUS/123  
30 September 2020  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  AUSTRALIA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Australian Competition and Consumer Commission  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different  from above:   
tbt.enquiry@dfat.gov.au  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  The draft 
regulations apply to consumer goods that use or contain a button cell or coin cell battery 
and button cell and coin cell batteries themselves, including: - consumer goods powere d 
by button batteries, as well as accessories such as remote controls - consumer goods 
intended to store button cell or coin cell batteries, such as storage containers, and 
organisers - button cell and coin cell batteries (small, single cell batteries that  have a 
diameter greater than their height) - button cell or coin cell batteries individually 
packaged and where multiple batteries are packaged together - button cell or coin cell 
batteries that are supplied together with a consumer good (whether pre -installed in the 
product or otherwise); Primary cells and primary batteries (HS 8506); Electro -mechanical 
domestic appliances, with self -contained electric motor (HS 8509); Shavers and hair 
clippers, with self -contained electric motor (HS 8510); Portable elect ric lamps designed 
to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, accumulators, 
magnetos), other than lighting equipment of heading No. 8512 (HS 8513); Microphones 
and stands therefor (HS 851810); Headphones, earphones and combined microphone / 
speaker sets (HS 851830); Parts (HS 851890); Parts and accessories of apparatus of 
headings Nos. 8519 to 8521 (HS 8522); Parts (HS 854390); Electrical parts of machinery 
or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter (HS 854 8); Other parts 
and accessories of bodies (including cabs): (HS 87082); Other parts and accessories: (HS 
87089); Of motorcycles (including mopeds): (HS 87141); Other: (HS 87149); Frames 
and forks, and parts thereof (HS 871491); Wheel rims and spokes (HS 87 1492); Hubs, 
other than coaster braking hubs and hub brakes, and free -wheel sprocket -wheels (HS 
871493); Brakes, including coaster braking hubs and hub brakes, and parts thereof (HS 
871494); Saddles (HS 871495); Pedals and crank -gear, and parts thereof (HS  871496); 
Other (HS 871499); Photographic (other than cinematographic) cameras; photographic 
flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading No. 8539 (HS 
9006); Drawing, marking -out or mathematical calculating instruments (for exa mple, 
drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); 
instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and 
tapes, micrometers, callipers), not specified or included elsewhere in t his Chapter (HS 
9017); Hearing aids, excluding parts and accessories (HS 902140); Thermometers, not 
combined with other instruments: (HS 90251); Revolution counters, production counters, 
taximeters, mileometers, pedometers and the like (HS 902910); Parts a nd accessories G/TBT/N/AUS/123  
 
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  (HS 902990); Parts and accessories (not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter) 
for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90 (HS 9033); Wrist -
watches, pocket -watches and other watches, including stop -watches, wit h case of 
precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal (HS 9101); Wrist -watches, pocket -
watches and other watches, including stop -watches, other than those of heading No. 9101 
(HS 9102); Other clocks (HS 9105); Battery or accumulator powered: (HS 91 081); Clock 
movements, complete and assembled (HS 9109); Other clock or watch parts (HS 9114); 
Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically 
(for example, organs, guitars, accordions) (HS 9207); Lamps and lighting fittings 
including searchlights and spotlights and parts thereof, not elsewhere specified or 
included; illuminated signs, illuminated name -plates and the like, having a permanently 
fixed light source, and parts thereof not elsewhere specified or included ( HS 9405); 
Electric trains, including tracks, signals and other accessories therefor (HS 950310); 
Reduced -size ('scale') model assembly kits, whether or not working models, excluding 
those of subheading 9503.10 (HS 950320); Other construction sets and const ructional 
toys (HS 950330); Toys representing animals or non -human creatures: (HS 95034); Toy 
musical instruments and apparatus (HS 950350); Other toys, put up in sets or outfits (HS 
950370); Other toys and models, incorporating a motor (HS 950380); Other (HS 
950390); Festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including conjuring tricks and 
novelty jokes (HS 9505)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Australian 
mandatory safety and information standards - propos ed requirements for consumer 
goods containing button and coin cell batteries and button and coin cell batteries 
themselves. (14 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  The draft Australian mandatory safety and information 
standards specify require ments for consumer goods containing button and coin cell 
batteries and button and coin cell batteries themselves  
• The safety standard for consumer goods containing button and coin cell 
batteries specifies requirements for consumer goods that use/contain 
button/coin cell batteries to be designed to eliminate child accessibility to the 
button/coin cell batteries, including that the batteries shall be secure and not 
release the batteries during normal and foreseeable use and abuse conditions.  
• The safety standard for button and coin cell batteries specifies requirements for 
child-resistant packaging of button and coin cell batteries.  
• The information standard for consumers goods containing button and coin cell 
batteries specifies requirements for wa rnings and information on packaging, 
instructions and at the retail point of sale for unpackaged products.  
• The information standard for button and coin cell batteries specifies 
requirements for warnings and information on the packaging of button and coin 
cell batteries and for markings on certain coin cell batteries.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Button and coin cell batteries pose a severe injury risk, particularly for young 
children. When lodged in the body and in contact with bodily fluid, button and coin cell 
batteries can burn through tissue and cause catastrophic bleeding. Further information is 
available at:  https://www.productsafety.gov.au/products/electronics -technology/button -
batteries ; Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
The draft Australian mandatory safety standard for consumer goods containing button 
and coin cell batteries permits suppliers to comply with one of the following industry 
standards (or sets of industry standards) deemed to have acceptable button/coin cell 
battery security and compliance testing requirements.  
• IEC 62368 -1: 2018 Audio/video, information a nd communication technology 
equipment – Part 1: Safety requirements  G/TBT/N/AUS/123  
 
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  • AS/NZS 62368.1:2018 Audio/video, information and communication technology 
equipment – Part 1: Safety requirements  
• AS/NZS 60065:2018 Audio, video and similar electronic apparatus -Safety 
requirements  
• IEC 62115:2017 Electric toys – Safety – clause 13.4.1, 13.4.2, 13.4.6 and ISO 
8124-1:2018 Safety of toys – Part 1: Safety aspects related to mechanical and 
physical properties  
• AS/NZS 62115:2018 Electric toys – Safety – clause 13.4.1, 13.4.2, 13.4 .6 and 
AS/NZS 8124.1:2019 Safety of toys – Part 1: Safety aspects related to 
mechanical and physical properties  
• AS/NZS 60598.1:2017 Luminaries Part 1: General requirements and tests  
• UL 4200A UL Standard for Safety for Products Incorporating Button or Coin Cell 
Batteries of Lithium Technologies  
The draft Australian mandatory safety standard for button and coin cell batteries permits 
suppliers to comply with one of the following industry standards to demonstrate that the 
child-resistant packaging requirements  have been met.  
• IEC 60086 -4:2019 Primary Batteries Part 4: Safety of lithium batteries  
• AS 5808 -2009 Child -resistant packaging - Requirements and testing procedures 
for non -reclosable packages for non -pharmaceutical products  
• EN 862:2016 Packaging - Child resistant packing - Requirements and testing 
procedures for non -reclosable packages for non -pharmaceutical products  
• ISO 28862:2018 Packaging - Child-resistant packaging - Requirements and 
testing procedures for non -reclosable packages for non -pharmac eutical products  
• AS 1928 -2007 Child -resistant packaging - Requirements and testing procedures 
for reclosable packages  
• ISO 8317 -2015 Child -resistant packaging - Requirements and testing 
procedures for reclosable packages  
• USA: 16 CFR §1700 Poison Prevention Packaging Standard  
The mandatory safety standard for button and coin cell batteries applies child -resistant 
packaging requirements that deviate from IEC 60086 -4 by requiring child -resistant 
packaging to:  
• button and coin cell batteries of lithium chemistry of all sizes  
• button batteries of a chemistry other than lithium with a diameter of 16mm or 
above.  
The mandatory information standard for consumer goods containing button and coin cell 
batteries applies warning requirements that deviate from certa in industry standards that 
specify button/coin cell battery related warning requirements by requiring that the front 
panel of the packaging of the consumer goods be marked with an internationally 
recognised safety alert symbol.  
9. Proposed date of adoptio n: The mandatory safety and information standards are 
subject to Australian Government consideration and approval.  
Proposed date of entry into force:  The proposed requirements will be mandatory 18 
months after the mandatory safety and information standards  commence.  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/AUS/123  
 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://consultation.accc.gov.au/product -safety/ef43042e