On January 29, 2025, IECEE officially released the button lithium battery safety testing standard IEC 60086-4:2025, which will be officially incorporated into the IECEE system on May 21, 2025.

In order to strengthen the safety and quality management of lithium-ion batteries throughout their life cycle, the State Administration for Market Regulation (National Standards Committee) approved the release of the national standard \"Lithium-ion Battery Coding Rules\", which will be implemented on November 1, 2025.

On June 3, 2025, the European Commission issued REACH Amendment Regulation (EU) 2025/1090, adding the control of item 80 N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAC) and item 81 1-ethylpyrrolidin-2-one (NEP) to REACH Annex XVII. The revised regulation will take effect 20 days after the release.

On May 21, 2025, the European Commission formally submitted a proposal to postpone the due diligence obligations of the EU Battery Law (EU) 2023/1542, which was originally scheduled to be implemented on August 18, 2025, to August 18, 2027. And the time for the European Commission to issue guidelines on applicable due diligence requirements is adjusted to July 26, 2026 to achieve synchronization with the Sustainability Due Diligence Directive ((EU) 2024/1760).

On May 15, 2025, the European Commission issued (EU) 2025/893 Implementation Decision, revising (EU) 2022/2191 Implementation Decision. This revision updates a series of standards, including several important EMC standards and important standards such as 5G terminal RF and Wi-Fi 6e RF.

On May 12, 2025, the EU Official Journal published Resolution (EU) 2025/868, agreeing to include MCCPs, chlorpyrifos, and long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids and their salts and related compounds (LC-PFCAs) in Annex A of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs Convention), and supporting the revision of the Convention\'s specific exemptions for certain specific uses of substances such as UV-328, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorosulfonic acid (PFOS).

On March 31, 2025, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) of Vietnam issued Announcement No. 01/2025/TT-BKHCN, which revised and supplemented Announcement No. 08/2021/TT-BTTTT issued on October 14, 2021, and will take effect on May 15, 2025.

On May 5, 2025, the European Commission passed two revised drafts for POPs Regulation (EU) 2019/1021, adding UV-328 substance control requirements and revising the control requirements for PFOA, salts and related substances.