IEC 62474:2018

Material declaration for products of and for the electrotechnical industry

IEC 62474:2018

Name:IEC 62474:2018   Standard name:Material declaration for products of and for the electrotechnical industry
Standard number:IEC 62474:2018   language:English language
Release Date:06-Dec-2020   technical committee:TC 111 - Environmental standardization for electrical and electronic products and systems
Drafting committee:WG 19 - TC 111/WG 19   ICS number:01.110 - Technical product documentation

IEC 62474
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Material declaration for products of and for the electrotechnical industry





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IEC 62474
Edition 2.0 2018-11
REDLINE VERSION
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
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inside
Material declaration for products of and for the electrotechnical industry

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
ICS 01.110; 13.020.01; 29.100 ISBN 978-2-8322-6338-9

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 5
INTRODUCTION . 6

1 Scope . 9
2 Normative references . 9
3 Terms and definitions . 10
4 Requirements for material declarations . 14
4.1 General . 19
4.1.1 Overview . 19
4.1.2 Conformity to the IEC 62474 standard . 22
4.1.3 General requirements . 23
4.2 Base data requirements .
4.2.1 Products .
4.2.2 Product parts .
4.2.3 Substances or substance groups listed in the IEC 62474 database with
a mandatory reporting requirement .
4.2.4 Other requirements .
4.3 Additional requirements .
4.3.1 Product parts .
4.3.2 Material classes (optional) .
4.3.3 Materials (optional) .
4.3.4 Substances or substance groups listed in the IEC 62474 database with
a mandatory reporting requirement .
4.3.5 Substances or substance groups listed in the IEC 62474 database with
an optional reporting requirement, as reference substances or
substances or substance groups not listed in the IEC 62474 database .
4.3.6 Other requirements .
4.2 Business information . 23
4.3 Product information . 23
4.4 Declaration for compliance requirements . 23
4.4.1 General information . 23
4.4.2 DSs and DSGs with mandatory reporting requirements . 23
4.4.3 DSs and DSGs with optional reporting requirements . 25
4.5 Composition declaration requirements . 25
4.5.1 General requirements . 25
4.5.2 Product parts . 25
4.5.3 Materials . 26
4.5.4 DSs and DSG substance(s) with mandatory reporting requirements. 27
4.5.5 DSs and DSG substance(s) with optional reporting requirements . 28
4.5.6 Other substance(s) . 28
4.6 Material class declaration . 28
4.7 Other information . 29
4.7.1 Query lists . 29
4.7.2 Attachments . 29
4.7.3 Requester/responder mode. 29
4.7.4 Distribution mode . 29

5 Criteria and thresholds for substances DSs, DSGs and material classes in the
IEC 62474 database . 19
5.1 General . 29
5.2 Declarable substances DSs and DSGs criteria . 29
5.3 Material class criteria . 31
5.4 Reporting threshold levels and reportable applications for declarable
substance groups and declarable substances DSs and DSGs . 31
5.5 Threshold levels for material classes . 31
5.6 Reference substances in the IEC 62474 database . 31
6 Criteria for exemption lists in the IEC 62474 database . 32
7 IEC 62474 database data format and exchange . 32
7.1 General . 32
7.2 Data exchange format . 32
7.3 Data exchange . 33
7.3.1 Two-way and one-way data exchange . 33
7.3.2 Data exchange specification in the IEC 62474 database . 33
7.3.3 Additional data exchange requirements . 33
7.3.4 XML file . 33
7.4 Criteria for the IEC 62474 database maintenance of data format and
exchange information format . 34
8 IEC 62474 database maintenance . 34
8.1 General . 34
8.2 IEC 62474 database update process . 34
8.3 Reclassification and removal of substance groups and substances DSs and
DSGs from the IEC 62474 database DSL . 35
8.4 Maintenance of exemption lists in the IEC 62474 database . 35
8.5 Maintenance of data format part exchange format of the IEC 62474
database . 36

Annex A (informative) Examples corresponding to Clause 4 – Requirements for
material declaration .
Annex B (informative) Examples corresponding to Clause 6 – Data format and
exchange .
Annex C (informative) Examples corresponding to Clause 7 – IEC 62474 database
management .
Annex D (informative) Additional information .
Annex E (informative) Declaration examples as XML files .
Annex A (informative) Simplified representation of data exchange format . 48

Bibliography . 72

Figure 1 – Conceptual diagram for base requirements .
Figure 2 – Conceptual diagram for additional requirements .
Figure A.1 – Schematic representation of products versus product parts along the
supply chain .
Figure C.1 – Guidance to validation team on C-1 substance/ substance group change
request review .

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Figure 1 – IEC 62474 principles . 8
Figure 2 – Material declaration capabilities . 20
Figure 3 – Material declaration structure . 21
Figure 4 – Data model for a declaration for compliance . 21
Figure 5 – Data model for a composition declaration . 22

Table A.1 – Base data requirements – Business information .
Table A.2 – Example 1 – base data requirements – Substance/substance group
information .
Table A.3 – Additional requirements – Business information .
Table A.4 – Additional requirements – Product part/material/substance
group/substance info
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