Regulatory Trends in Household Appliances 2024: a 12-18 Month Outlook
A 12-18 month outlook for regulatory trends in household appliances
The household appliance regulatory landscape is continually evolving, catching up with ever smarter appliances and responding to a key priority on many policy agendas of more sustainable products.
This has resulted in an explosion of growth in regulation in areas such as cybersecurity, data protection, artificial intelligence, eco-design and sustainability.
This, coupled with ever present regulations in areas such as safety and chemicals, makes keeping on top of household appliance regulation a hugely difficult task.
The below figure shows this growth has reached unprecedented levels with 69% increase in Regulations for Household Appliance manufacturers since 2017, with 41,209 regulations in place by 2024 (and pending).
(Source: C2P by Compliance & Risks)
Key Areas of Concern & Hot Topics
Here’s a bird’s-eye view of key regulatory trends and issues you need to be aware of to get your product on the market and keep it there:
Sustainable Products In The Limelight
Never before has the need to protect our environment been more to the forefront of the world’s consciousness. Regulators are fast responding enacting measures focussed on minimising the environmental impacts of products.
The net result is even more regulation to contend with.
As noted by the EU Commission “Products use up massive amounts of materials, energy and other resources and cause significant environmental impacts throughout their lifecycle, from the extraction of raw materials, to manufacture, transport, use and end of life. Half of global greenhouse gases and 90% of biodiversity loss are caused by extracting and processing primary raw materials.”
(Source: C2P by Compliance & Risks)
Top Trending Regulations
Listed below are the key regulations that will be impacting your business over the next 12-18 months:
- EU: Proposed Framework for Setting Ecodesign Requirements for Sustainable Products, Draft Regulation, March 2022
- EU: Batteries and Waste Batteries, Regulation (EU) 2023/1542
- EU: Common Rules Promoting the Repair of Goods, Draft Directive, March 2023
- UK: Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products), Regulations, SI No. 2023/1007
- UK: Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment) Draft Regulations, January 2024
- China: Compulsory Product Certification of Household and Similar Appliances, Implementation Rules CNCA-C07-01, 2024
- China: Energy Saving and Environmental Protection Specification for Household and Similar Electrical Appliances, Draft Standard GB XXXX-20XX, February 2024
- USA: Toxic Substances Control Act (TCSA), Regulation of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals Under Section 6(h), Rule, 40 CFR 751, 2021- Proposed Amendment – (on Decabromodiphenyl Ether and Phenol Isopropylated Phosphate (3:1)), Draft Rule, November 2023
- Arizona (USA): Fair Repair of Electronics and Appliances, Senate Bill 1536, January 2024
- Israel: Standards Law, 5713-1953 – Proposed Amendment – (on new import route based on compliance with EU regulations) Bill, April 2024
- Vietnam: Chemicals, Draft Law, March 2024
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