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),

