ICS 13.020; 43.040.10                         ETD 43

Reaffirmed 2022

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard which is identical with IEC/TR 62476 : 2010 ‘Guidance for evaluation of products with respect to substance-use restrictions in electrical and electronic products’ issued by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Standardization of Environmental Aspects of Electrical and Electronics Products Sectional Committee and approval of the Electrotechnical Division Council.

The text of IEC Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain terminology and conventions are however not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ or ‘Technical Report’ appears referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.