Although the automotive industry is not directly affected by this directive, many companies also supply the non-automotive sector. Many substances that are restricted by RoHS already fall under other legal regulations, such as Annex II of the ELV (End-of-Life Vehicles Directive) or REACH. This means that there is no industry that is not affected by the substance restrictions. There are differences in handling exceptions and reporting.

A small diagram should illustrate the connections:

What

Question 1:
We use a metal filler in an automotive product. Unfortunately, the manufacturer is not in a position to supply us with a corresponding data record. Reference is only made to the safety data sheets that have been sent to us.

How should we proceed now or what possibility exists to list the used product in the IMDS data record created by us for our customer? What is the general procedure for products for which no IMDS data record is available?

Answer:
The IMDS General Rules and

Release 12.0

The new IMDS Release 12.0 is expected to go live on May 9, 2019 and includes a number of enhancements:

• The IMDS Regulation Wizard receives a refinement of the search and clearer text descriptions
• New handling of MDB versioning without basic substances with regulation information
• Changed Application Code Checks for Spare Parts
• Extended warning for inbox checks
• Update of recyclate information

For more information, see the preliminary release notes.

GADSL-Update

The

As an automotive supplier, you are contractually obliged to enter all data relating to the materials you use in the IMDS or to request this from your suppliers. This requires professional data management, which is connected with a considerable expenditure in terms of time - and this is exactly where the service of IMDS Professional starts:

In addition to our IMDS and material compliance training courses, as a full-service provider we also take over all your material data management tasks. This

Our Brazilian staff member Humberto Fracassi recently held an exclusive IMDS training for our customer Valeo in São Paulo. The goal of the training was to let the participants be aware about how to create material data sheets (MDS) compliant with the IMDS rules and material regulations. During the three days, 20 participants learned about the background and goals of the International Material Data System (IMDS) and how to use all of its common functions.

As a worldwide partner of the

Question 1:
A supplier has submitted to us an MDB (IMDS entry) with the declarable / prohibited pure substance dioctyl tin oxide with a weighted average value of 0.865%.

On request, we received an explanation of the mean value, but we do not know whether this has been sufficiently confirmed in accordance with the EU directive.

Answer:

Unfortunately, you cannot do much with the mean value observation. The tin content must be calculated on the lock holder. We have compiled the calculation basis

IMDS Release 12.0

IMDS Release 12.0 is expected to go live on May 9, 2019 and will include a number of enhancements such as the IMDS Regulation Wizard and Inbox Check Warning and Recycling Information Update. More information on it can be found in Release Notes 12.0.

Changes to Application Codes in IMDS

The following changes to the application codes in the IMDS were implemented on December 5, 2018: Application code changes in the IMDS.

Toyota and Suzuki: Update supplier information

Toyota

"Practice, practice, practice" - this will be the motto for our 2019 training program. With new and updated courses, we are responding to your request for more hands-on exercises, to increasing requirements due to changed guidelines and laws as well as to the latest developments of IMDS.

And this is how the new program looks like: In our 2-day Basics course we are putting even more emphasis on practice than before. There will be frequent hands-on exercises and we have added new important