Since 4 July 2020, PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid), its salts and other compounds related to PFOA have been banned in the EU. It was regulated in Annex I of the EU Regulation 2019/1021 (so-called POP Regulation). It is the European implementation of the UN Stockholm Convention, which replaces the previously valid restriction of PFOA under Annex XVII of the REACH Regulation. By definition, suppliers are obliged to always check the Global Automotive Declarable Substance List (www.gadsl.org) for the

The deactivation of the Rec019 data sheets of the ZVEI has been postponed to March 2021. However, many car manufacturers already reject MDS in which these data sheets were used. We, therefore, recommend that the IMDS data, according to Rec001 to be made available for electronic components and materials at all levels of the supply chain. We have provided examples and explained the challenges for correct reporting in an interesting blog post.

Increased precision for portionsThe maximum number of floating point digits in portions is increased from 6 to 9 to allow the input of tiny fragments (e.g. for substances like PFOA) Wizard for metallic materialsThis wizard helps users to select a material MDS name (MMDS) and a default material number. Suppose a default MMDS already exists for this material. In this case, a message will inform the user when releasing or referencing an MMDS. Support for multi-sourcing The current scope of this

Many companies in the automotive industry will also be obliged from January 2021 to additionally transmit the data of the SVHC they use to the new SCIP database. There will be new attribute fields as well as an interface from IMDS Release 13.0 (planned for March 2021) to the SCIP database to keep the effort as low as possible. For newly created components, the following new attribute fields will be introduced: Article category/Taric codes Production in the EU Instructions for safe use required