IMDS and the Eco-design for sustainable products regulation:
● In the starting, suppliers in the Automobile industry mainly delivered their information in IMDS which resulted in the ban of heavy metals by End of Life Vehicle (ELV) directive.
● With the introduction of,
- New application codes,
- REACH
- SVHC
allowed the IMDS to fulfill their new legal requirements.
● The revised IMDS terms of use consider other data usage such as Eco-design for sustainable product regulation, which includes the Digital Products Passport(DPP) & Life cycle assessments(LCA).
● Since IMDS is flexible it is ready to support compliance with upcoming obligations on digital product passport which leads to low investment costs,
Reference: https://public.mdsystem.com/documents/10906/26775/imds_newsletter_59.pdf/b89fa6da-af68-2f08-3ed6-c8a896cf1eea?t=1658414622951
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