REACH, RoHS, EU SCIP, CE marking, TSCA, PFAS reporting, Prop 65 and China RoHS: what each rule actually requires, who it's for, and how Rumzer's software helps you keep up as they change.
REACH, RoHS, EU SCIP, CE marking, TSCA, PFAS, Prop 65 and China RoHS
REACH
REACH is the EU's central chemicals law. Its Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs) drives two separate obligations for anyone supplying articles into the EU market: telling your customers, and telling ECHA.
EU RoHS restricts ten specific hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. It is narrower than REACH, but it applies to almost every EEE product sold in the EU.
CE marking isn't one rule — it's a family of EU product-safety instruments. RumzerCE covers conformity for the five groups below: gas appliances, low voltage equipment, recreational craft, construction products and toys.
The EU SCIP database collects information on substances of very high concern in articles. As of this writing, its notification duty is in force — and a Commission proposal to repeal it is working through the European Parliament.
TSCA is the US federal law governing chemical substances. Its Section 6(h) rules restrict five persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) chemicals, with one deadline landing about a month after this page was last reviewed.
US PFAS reporting is not one rule but several, moving on different clocks: a federal TSCA rule whose submission window has not yet opened, and state programs in Maine, Minnesota and Washington already in motion — one of which has already passed a deadline this year.
Once a chemical is added to California's Proposition 65 list, businesses get a fixed clock to add warnings and, separately, to stop discharging it into drinking water sources.
China RoHS runs on a compliance-catalog system, not a blanket ban, and a new mandatory national standard has just expanded its restricted-substances list to 10.