IEC 62474:2012

Material declaration for products of and for the electrotechnical industry

IEC 62474:2012 specifies the procedure, content, and form relating to material declarations for products of companies operating in and supplying the electrotechnical industry. Process chemicals and emissions during product use are not in the scope of this International Standard. It provides data to downstream manufacturers that:
- allows them to assess products against substance restriction compliance requirements;
- they can use in their environmentally conscious design process and across all product life cycle phases. A database associated with this document is available at http://std.iec.ch/iec62474. It contains the list of:
- Declarable substance groups and declarable substances;
- Reference Substances;
- Material classes;
- XML schema for data format and exchange and the accompanying developer table.

Déclaration de matière pour des produits de et pour l'industrie électrotechnique

La CEI 62474:2012 décrit la procédure, le contenu et la forme des déclarations de matières pour les produits des entreprises et des fournisseurs de l'industrie électrotechnique. Les produits chimiques et les émissions du processus pendant l'utilisation du produit n'entrent pas dans le domaine d'application de la présente Norme internationale. Elle fournit aux fabricants situés en aval des données qui:
- leur permettent d'évaluer des produits au vu des exigences de conformité et de restriction de substances;
- peuvent être utilisées dans le cadre de leur processus d'écoconception et dans toutes les phases du cycle de vie du produit. Une base de données associée au présent document est disponible à l'adresse http://std.iec.ch/iec62474. Elle contient la liste des:
- groupes de substances déclarables et les substances déclarables;
- substances de référence;
- classes de matières;
- schémas XML pour le format et l'échange de données et le tableau développeurs d'accompagnement.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 21-Mar-2012
• ICS: 01.110 - Technical product documentation
• ICS: 13.020.01 - Environment and environmental protection in general
• ICS: 29.100 - Components for electrical equipment
• Technical Committee: TC 111 - Environmental standardization for electrical and electronic products and systems
• Drafting Committee: WG 1 - TC 111/WG 1
• Current Stage: DELPUB - Deleted Publication
• Completion Date: 30-Nov-2018

Relations

• Replaces: IEC PAS 61906:2005 - Procedure for the declaration of materials in products of the electrotechnical and electronic industry
• Effective Date: 05-Sep-2023
• Replaces: IEC GUIDE 113:2000 - Materials declaration questionnaires - Basic guidelines
• Effective Date: 05-Sep-2023
• Revised: IEC 62474:2018 - Material declaration for products of and for the electrotechnical industry
• Effective Date: 05-Sep-2023

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Material declaration for products of and for the electrotechnical industry

Déclaration de matière pour des produits de et pour l’industrie électrotechnique

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IEC 62474 ®
Edition 1.0 2012-03
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
colour
inside
Material declaration for products of and for the electrotechnical industry

Déclaration de matière pour des produits de et pour l’industrie électrotechnique

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
PRICE CODE
INTERNATIONALE
CODE PRIX XA
ICS 01.110; 13.020; 29.100; 31.020 ISBN 978-2-88912-971-3

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 4

INTRODUCTION . 6

1 Scope . 7

2 Normative references . 7

3 Terms and definitions . 8

4 Requirements for material declaration . 9

4.1 General . 9

4.2 Base data requirements . 11
4.2.1 Products . 11
4.2.2 Product parts . 11
4.2.3 Substances or substance groups listed in the IEC 62474 database
with a mandatory reporting requirement . 11
4.2.4 Other requirements . 12
4.3 Additional requirements . 12
4.3.1 Product parts . 12
4.3.2 Material classes (optional) . 12
4.3.3 Materials (optional) . 12
4.3.4 Substances or substance groups listed in the IEC 62474 database
with a mandatory reporting requirement . 13
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 . 13
4.3.6 Other requirements . 14
5 Criteria and thresholds for substances and material classes in the IEC 62474
database . 14
5.1 General . 14
5.2 Declarable substances criteria. 15
5.3 Material class criteria . 16
5.4 Reporting threshold levels and reportable applications for declarable
substance groups and declarable substances . 16
5.5 Threshold levels for material classes . 17
5.6 Reference substances in the IEC 62474 database . 17
6 Data format and exchange . 17

6.1 General . 17
6.2 Data format . 17
6.3 Data exchange . 18
6.3.1 Two-way and one-way data exchange . 18
6.3.2 Data exchange specification in the IEC 62474 database . 18
6.3.3 Additional data exchange requirements . 18
6.3.4 XML file . 18
6.4 Criteria for the IEC 62474 database maintenance of data format and
exchange information . 18
7 IEC 62474 database maintenance . 18
7.1 IEC 62474 database update process . 18
7.2 Reclassification and removal of substance groups and substances from the
IEC 62474 database . 19
7.3 Maintenance of data format part of the IEC 62474 database . 19

62474  IEC:2012 – 3 –
Annex A (informative) Examples corresponding to Clause 4 – Requirements for

material declaration . 20

Annex B (informative) Examples corresponding to Clause 6 – Data format and

exchange . 31

Annex C (informative) Examples corresponding to Clause 7 – IEC 62474 database
management . 38

Annex D (informative) Additional information . 47

Annex E (informative) Declaration examples as XML files . 49

Bibliography . 52

Figure 1 – Conceptual diagram for base requirements . 10
Figure 2 – Conceptual diagram for additional requirements . 10
Figure A.1 – Schematic representation of products versus product parts along the
supply chain . 29
Figure C.1 – Guidance to validation team on C-1 substance/ substance group change
request review . 45

Table 1 – Declarable substances criteria . 15
Table A.1 – Base data requirements – Business information . 21
Table A.2 – Example 1 – base data requirements – Substance/substance group
information. 21
Table A.3 – Additional requirements – Business information . 21
Table A.4 – Additional requirements – Product part/material/substance
group/substance information . 22
Table A.5 – Additional requirements – Material class information . 23
Table A.6 – Base data requirements – Business information . 24
Table A.7 – Example 2 – Base data requirements – Substance/substance group
information. 24
Table A.8 – Additional requirements – Business information . 24
Table A.9 – Additional requirements – Product part/material/substance
group/substance information . 25
Table A.10 – Additional Requirements – Material class information . 26
Table A.11 – Additional requirements – Business information . 26
Table A.12 – Additional requirements – Product part/material/substance

group/substance information . 27
Table A.13 – Additional requirements – material class information . 28
Table B.1 – Data element types of a material declaration .
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