RoHS: ECHA SCIP

New IPC-1752B standard supply chain standard for ECHA SCIP database reporting

From 5 January 2021, all companies in Europe must submit information to the ECHA SCIP database for products they supply which include articles containing REACH candidate list substances above 0.1%. The requirement stems from the revised Waste Framework Directive.

To help companies collect the necessary SCIP information from their supply chains, JB Hollister of Apple and Aidan Turnbull of BOMcheck led the development of the new IPC-1752B supply chain data exchange standard which was published 1 July 2020

This new industry standard is applicable to products across all industry sectors and helps companies who want to collect data from their supply chains in a format matching the data requirements of the SCIP database.

The structure of the IPC-1752B standard mirrors the ECHA SCIP database submission format. The standard includes new functionality which enables reporting different products with different types of materials declarations, known as declaration classes, in the same XML file. This enables suppliers to report sub-products using different declaration classes which provide different levels of detail about the materials in the articles.

No other industry standard today has this capability.