Trade in Critical Minerals

ADB WTO

Member

Australia,

Type of Measure

Technical regulation

Status

In Force

Year of Implementation

2020

Australian mandatory safety and information standards - requirements for consumer goods containing button and coin cell batteries and button and coin cell batteries themselves.

The new standards take effect on 22 December 2020 and an 18-month transition period applies from this date. Suppliers have until June 2022 to comply with the new requirements.The ACCC will make guidance material about the standards available in 2021 to make it easy for all businesses to understand their obligations and for consumers to know what they can expect when buying button battery products. For further information please see the Product Safety Australia website: https://www.productsafety.gov.au/standards/button-coin-batteries




Source


ePing TBT Platform
G/TBT/N/AUS/123/Add.1


Products


Cells and batteries; primary, lithium (850650),