Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH) published the amendment 4 to AIS-156
on December 20, 2023, which has new requirements for swappable battery pack. And this
amendment comes into effect immediately.

To fulfill the requirement of Product Certification Scheme, SIRIM has resumed the requirement
of two surveillance audits for each SIRIM certificate from this year. Online factory audits are no longer accepted. SIRIM has also allowed their auditors to conduct factory audits in China. Only those complete surveillance audit twice can renew their SIRIM certificate.

On 30th November 2022, the Vietnam MIC (Ministry of Information and Communications of
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) has issued Circular 24/2022/TT-BTTTT with accompanying
QCVN 132:2022/BTTTT Electrical Safety standard for ICT and ITE products. The QCVN 132:
2022/BTTTT standard is composed based on IEC 62368-1: 2018 and it will come into effect on
January 1, 2024.

Vide the notification G.S.R 888(E) on 19th December, 2022, the serial number entries 23 shall
be inserted after serial number 22 in rule 124, sub-rule (4) in the Central Motor Vehicles Rules,
1989. Traction Battery for Electric Power train Vehicles will be fall under the COP
requirements from 31st March, 2023.

Belarus government announced to suspend mandatory requirements for energy efficiency products from 01-01-2023. Until a special decision of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, the mandatory requirements for energy efficiency will remain suspended.

The Consumer Product Safety Office, CPSO, published an announcement CPSO-310522-05 on May 31, 2022, in which it declared the change to applicable standards for medium-risk controlled goods. Please refer to Annex A for new standards.

According to the notification released by MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS on December 27th, 2021, AIS-038 (Rev. 2) and AIS-156/2020 will be implemented and substitute AIS-038 (Rev. 1) / 2015 and AIS-048-2009 from December 27th, 2022.

Standards Australia published a large number of standards on June 24, 2022. The most significant will be AS/NZS 62368.1:2022 which is based on IEC 62368.1: 2018 (ED. 3.0). There are 3 years of transition period from the publication, during which time either the original or new standards may be used.

TISI announced the regulation of new standard TIS 62368 part 1-2563 on June 24, 2022. The new standard will replace TIS 1195-2536.

CNCA has released GB/T9254.1-2021 version updated resolution on June 1, and will be implemented on July 1. Please refer to the attachment for the standard differences and supplementary test requirements.