Product compliance blog
Regulatory positions we find ourselves explaining repeatedly — written out once, with the dates and instruments, so you can check them rather than take our word for it.
Amendment 1 to AS/NZS 4417.2 moves electric vehicle supply equipment from Level 1 to Level 3. From the date of application, every EV charger supplied in the participating jurisdictions needs a certificate of conformity and an EESS registration — existing models included.
Read articleThe most repeated claim about UKCA is wrong. CE marking is accepted in Great Britain indefinitely — the date circulating online is about where you put a label, not whether CE is recognised.
Read articleMost scope arguments we see start from the wrong end. Voltage gets you part of the way; what decides it is who the product is marketed to.
Read articleThe two FCC authorisation routes carry very different obligations, and the one people discover late is that a Supplier's Declaration of Conformity requires a US-located responsible party.
Read articleA January 2026 change brought forward expiry dates for a large number of listed products. If your battery was listed under the 2018 Best Practice Guide, the re-listing work is real and the queue is long.
Read articleA foreign company cannot hold Indonesian certificates. The structural decision about who does is the most consequential — and least reversible — choice in the whole programme.
Read articleA surprising amount of the compliance information circulating online is out of date, undated, or repeats an error that has been copied between sites for years. The CE-in-Great-Britain question and the Indonesian certificate holder question come up in almost every relevant enquiry we take. Writing them out properly is faster than explaining them one at a time — and it lets you check the reasoning.
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If it comes up often enough we will write it up. In the meantime, a free 15-minute consultation will answer it for your product specifically.
