China lithium battery transportation requirements must be tested in-country by authorized labs.
Sent from my iPhone Peter S. Merguerian pe...@goglobalcompliance.com Go Global Compliance Inc. www.goglobalcompliance.com (408) 931-3303 On Nov 9, 2012, at 11:31 AM, "Crane, Lauren" <lauren.cr...@kla-tencor.com> wrote: > Does anyone know what requirements apply to the transportation by air in > China of lithium button cells installed in equipment ? > > I have one Chinese regulation à “Administrative Provisions on Transport of > Dangerous Goods by the Civil Aviation of China” (“中国民用航空危险品运输管理规定”), which > defines dangerous goods as > > “articles or substances which possess danger to the health, safety, property > or environment, specified in the listing of dangerous goods of the Technical > Instructions, and classified pursuant to the Technical Instructions. > "Technical Instructions" refers to the current Technical Instructions for the > Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air (Doc9284-AN/905) promulgated by the > International Civil Aviation Organization, including the supplements and any > appendix thereto approved and published by decision of the Council of the > International Civil Aviation Organization.” > > According to the 2011 version of ICAO Doc 9284-AN/905 button cell batteries > in equipment (including on circuit boards) are excluded from the general > lithium battery transportation requirements in the document. Particularly > Packing Instruction 967 and 970. > Which seems to imply they are out of scope also of the Chinese regulation. > > However, there is also the Chinese standard MH/T 1020-2009, “Standard for > transport of 1ithium batteries by air” (组电池航空运输规范) which does not acknowledge > any button cell exclusions. > > Any ideas? > > If in scope, the requirement would be for the button cell to be certified to > UN38.3. Is it even possible to buy a button cell these days that does not > meet this standard? > > Regards, > Lauren Crane > KLA-Tencor > > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc > discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to > <emc-p...@ieee.org> > > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html > > Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at > http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used > formats), large files, etc. > > Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ > Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html > List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> > Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Jim Bacher <j.bac...@ieee.org> > David Heald <dhe...@gmail.com> - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
