Plain-English definitions for the regulations, acronyms and data standards Rumzer software tracks, with links to the tools that help.
A declarable-substance list for the aerospace and defense supply chain, maintained by the International Aerospace Environmental Group (IAEG) Working Group 1.
See also: GADSL, IEC 62474 Declarable Substances List
Minnesota's PFAS-in-products statute, requiring manufacturers to report intentionally added PFAS to the MPCA and phasing in sales bans by product category, with a general ban (absent further exemption) beginning January 1, 2032. The implementing rule set the initial reporting deadline at September 15, 2026.
Read the source: Minnesota Revisor of Statutes — Minn. Stat. § 116.943
See also: Currently Unavoidable Use (CUU)
The EU RoHS annex listing the ten currently restricted substances: lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, PBB, PBDE, and the phthalates DEHP, BBP, DBP and DIBP (the phthalates were added by Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2015/863).
Read the source: European Commission — RoHS Directive
See also: RoHS Recast
The REACH annex naming SVHCs that require explicit EU authorisation to keep using past a 'sunset date.' ECHA recommends priority substances from the Candidate List to the European Commission, which decides what goes on Annex XIV.
Read the source: ECHA — Recommendations for inclusion in the Authorisation List
See also: Candidate List, Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC)
The REACH annex naming substances whose manufacture, sale or use in the EU is limited or banned outright, including restrictions carried over from before REACH existed as well as ones adopted directly under REACH.
Read the source: ECHA — Substances restricted under REACH
See also: Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC), Candidate List
See how MatCheck helps with Annex XVII (Restricted Substances)
The running list of SVHCs that ECHA maintains under REACH. Appearing on the Candidate List triggers Article 33 communication duties for suppliers of articles containing the substance above 0.1% w/w, and separately triggers SCIP notification. ECHA periodically adds substances to the list, so its size grows over time — check ECHA's Candidate List table directly for the current count.
Read the source: ECHA — Candidate List table
See also: Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC), Annex XIV (Authorisation List), SCIP database
A designation under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act that triggers release-reporting duties and potential cost-recovery/liability exposure. EPA designated PFOA and PFOS (including their salts and structural isomers) as CERCLA hazardous substances effective July 8, 2024 — a designation distinct from any TSCA reporting obligation.
Read the source: Federal Register — document 2024-08547
See also: Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), TSCA Section 8(a)(7)
The list of product categories subject to mandatory hazardous-substance limits and conformity assessment under China RoHS’s Order No. 32 management system. It is periodically reissued — the current edition (2026) replaced the 2018 "First Batch" catalog.
Read the source: MIIT — 2026 Compliance Catalog announcement
See also: GB vs. GB/T
The EU regulation establishing uniform rules for construction products such as doors, windows, thermal insulation and flooring. The current legal basis, 305/2011, is being replaced by a new regulation, (EU) 2024/3110, signed 27 November 2024 and published in the Official Journal 18 December 2024.
Read the source: European Parliament Legislative Observatory — procedure 2022/0094(COD)
See also: Toy Safety Regulation
See how RumzerCE helps with Construction Products Regulation (CPR)
A determination process under Maine's amended PFAS-in-products law that lets specific product categories keep selling past their general sales-prohibition date if the use is deemed currently unavoidable. Maine's 2023 amendment eliminated the broader PFAS notification requirement and tied notification instead to CUU-approved categories.
Read the source: Maine DEP — PFAS in Products
See also: TSCA Section 8(a)(7)
See how PFASTracker helps with Currently Unavoidable Use (CUU)
A Bill of Materials analyzed down to the individual substance level, rather than only at the part or component level. MatCheck analyzes BOMs to this depth and recommends a compliance assessment wherever possible, tracking what share of a BOM has been assessed.
Read the source: IPC (electronics.org) — Materials Declaration Data Exchange Standards
See also: IPC-1752
A list of substances automakers and suppliers must declare in materials reporting, maintained by the Global Automotive Stakeholders Group (GASG) across automotive OEMs, tier suppliers, and the chemical/plastics industries. MatCheck includes GADSL among its covered regulation badges.
See also: IEC 62474 Declarable Substances List, AD-DSL
The EU regulation governing appliances that burn gaseous fuels (for cooking, heating, hot water, refrigeration, lighting and washing) and their fittings. It always requires third-party (notified body) involvement before an appliance type can be placed on the market.
Read the source: European Commission — Gas Appliances Regulation
See also: Low Voltage Directive (LVD), Recreational Craft Directive (RCD)
In Chinese national standards, "GB" designates a mandatory standard and "GB/T" designates a recommended (voluntary) one. GB 26572-2025's replacement of the voluntary GB/T 26572-2011 is a significant status change — from voluntary to mandatory — phasing in with an August 1, 2027 implementation date.
Read the source: MIIT — GB 26572-2025 announcement
See also: Compliance Management Catalog
A material-declaration procedure, content and XML data format, plus a declarable-substance database, for the global electrotechnical industry. Current edition 2018, amended A1:2020.
See how MatCheck helps with IEC 62474 Declarable Substances List
The automotive industry's material-composition data exchange system, founded by Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ford, Opel, Porsche, VW and Volvo. MatCheck integrates with IMDS so automotive suppliers can manage IMDS submissions alongside their other material compliance work.
Read the source: IMDS — About IMDS
See also: SCIP database
An XML-based material-declaration data-exchange standard for the electronics supply chain, maintained by IPC. MatCheck generates IPC-1752 XML alongside PDF declarations so customers can consume compliance data in either format.
Read the source: IPC (electronics.org) — Materials Declaration Data Exchange Standards
See also: Full Material Disclosure (FMD)
The EU directive covering electrical equipment rated between 50–1,000 V AC and 75–1,500 V DC, requiring manufacturers to run a conformity assessment, draw up technical documentation and affix CE marking before placing equipment on the market.
Read the source: EUR-Lex — Directive 2014/35/EU summary
See also: Gas Appliances Regulation (GAR)
For reproductive and developmental toxicants under California Prop 65, a threshold set by dividing the chemical's "no observable effect level" by 1,000. Exposure below the MADL does not require a Prop 65 warning.
Read the source: OEHHA — Proposition 65 in Plain Language
See also: No Significant Risk Level (NSRL), Safe harbor number
See how MatCheck helps with Maximum Allowable Dose Level (MADL)
A global UNEP treaty phasing out mercury mining, use and trade, including in some manufactured products. MatCheck includes the Minamata Convention among its covered regulation badges.
For carcinogens under California Prop 65, the exposure level resulting in no more than one excess cancer case per 100,000 people exposed over a 70-year lifetime. OEHHA publishes NSRLs (as part of its "safe harbor" numbers) for specific listed chemicals.
Read the source: OEHHA — Proposition 65 in Plain Language
See also: Maximum Allowable Dose Level (MADL), Safe harbor number
See how MatCheck helps with No Significant Risk Level (NSRL)
A chemical EPA has found under TSCA Section 6(h) to be persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic, and identified for expedited restriction 'to the extent practicable,' without a full risk evaluation. Five PBT chemicals are currently restricted: decaBDE, PIP (3:1), 2,4,6-TTBP, HCBD and PCTP.
Read the source: eCFR — Title 40, Chapter I, Subchapter R
See also: PIP (3:1)
One of five chemicals restricted under TSCA Section 6(h) as persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT). PIP (3:1) has the most detailed prohibition schedule of the five, with staggered deadlines for different product/article categories running from 2021 through 2039, codified at 40 CFR § 751.407.
Read the source: eCFR — 40 CFR § 751.407
See also: PBT chemical
The EU directive covering boats intended for sports and leisure with a hull length from 2.5m to 24m, plus personal watercraft, designated components and propulsion engines, each requiring a conformity assessment before sale in the EU.
Read the source: EUR-Lex — Directive 2013/53/EU
See also: Gas Appliances Regulation (GAR)
See how RumzerCE helps with Recreational Craft Directive (RCD)
The 2011 EU directive that replaced the original 2002/2003 RoHS Directive, restricting ten hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment.
Read the source: European Commission — RoHS Directive
See also: Annex II (RoHS)
An OEHHA-published numeric guidance level implementing the NSRL (carcinogens) or MADL (reproductive/developmental toxicants) concepts for a specific Prop 65-listed chemical, letting a business determine whether a warning is legally required.
Read the source: OEHHA — Proposition 65 in Plain Language
See also: No Significant Risk Level (NSRL), Maximum Allowable Dose Level (MADL)
ECHA's database of substances of very high concern in articles, established under the Waste Framework Directive. Enterprises that produce, assemble, import or distribute an article containing a Candidate List substance above 0.1% w/w must notify it, with information made publicly available to waste operators and consumers. A Commission proposal (COM(2025) 986, 10 Dec 2025) would repeal this duty, but as of this writing it is still a proposal, awaiting a decision in the European Parliament's ENVI committee.
See also: Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC), Waste Framework Directive
A substance identified under REACH Article 57 as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction (CMR); persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) or very persistent/very bioaccumulative (vPvB); or of an equivalent level of concern by other evidence, such as certain endocrine disruptors. SVHCs are the substances tracked on ECHA's Candidate List.
Read the source: ECHA — Authorisation: substances of very high concern identification explained
See also: Candidate List, Annex XIV (Authorisation List), Annex XVII (Restricted Substances), SCIP database
See how MatCheck helps with Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC)
An annual, facility-level chemical-release reporting program under EPCRA § 313. The FY2020 NDAA mandates that PFAS meeting certain criteria be added to the TRI list automatically; EPA's most recent implementing action adds a further PFAS to the list starting with reporting year 2026. TRI is separate from, and in addition to, TSCA § 8(a)(7)'s one-time historical report.
Read the source: Federal Register — document 2026-03944
See also: CERCLA hazardous substance, TSCA Section 8(a)(7)
See how PFASTracker helps with Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)
The EU instrument governing the health and safety of toys for children under 14. The current Directive 2009/48/EC is being replaced by a new Regulation, (EU) 2025/2509, signed 26 November 2025 and published 12 December 2025, with a confirmed 4½-year transition period for industry to comply.
Read the source: European Parliament Legislative Observatory — procedure 2023/0290(COD)
See also: Construction Products Regulation (CPR)
A federal EPA rule requiring manufacturers (including importers) who made PFAS for a commercial purpose any time from 2011 through 2022 to submit a one-time report covering exposure, use, production volume, byproduct, disposal and health/environmental-effects data. As of this writing the submission window has not opened: per 40 CFR § 705.20 (91 FR 18789), it opens no later than January 31, 2027, or earlier if EPA's final rule on its November 2025 proposal (90 FR 50923) takes effect before about December 2, 2026, since the period starts 60 days after that rule's effective date.
Read the source: eCFR — 40 CFR § 705.20 (91 FR 18789)
See also: CERCLA hazardous substance, Currently Unavoidable Use (CUU)
The EU directive whose Article 9(1)(i) and 9(2), as amended by Directive (EU) 2018/851, is the legal basis for the SCIP database — mandating ECHA to maintain a database of SVHCs in articles referencing REACH Article 33(1).
Read the source: European Commission — COM(2025) 986 final
See also: SCIP database
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