Electronics and electrical
Foresight tracks the rules that reach your components, from RoHS to battery design, and runs the projects that follow.
ProjectsMarket entry requirements
- Amara Osei
- Kenji Mori
- Bianca Horvath
| Requirement |  India |  UAE |  Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Substance limits | |||
| Leaded brass | |||
| Before sale | |||
| Take-back |
Substance limits India
Six of the EU’s RoHS limits
- Limits
- 0.1% in each homogeneous material
- Covers
- Lead, mercury, Cr(VI), PBB, PBDE
Substance limits United Arab Emirates
The same ten limits as EU RoHS
- Limits
- 0.1% in each homogeneous material
- Covers
- The EU’s ten substances
- Parts
- Cables and spare parts too
Substance limits Canada
PBDEs capped as EU RoHS caps them
- Limit
- 0.1% PBDEs in electrical equipment
- Since
- 30 June 2026
Leaded brass India
Pins up to 4% lead stay exempt
- Exempt
- Copper alloy up to 4% lead
- Ends
- No end date
Leaded brass United Arab Emirates
Pins up to 4% lead stay exempt
- Exempt
- Copper alloy up to 4% lead
- Ends
- No end date
Leaded brass Canada
No lead limit for these products
- Reaches
- Products that go in the mouth
- Leaves out
- Chargers and speakers
Before sale India
Declared at CPCB registration
- Evidence
- Technical file to EN IEC 63000
- Declared
- Generated on the portal
Before sale United Arab Emirates
A conformity certificate under ECAS
- Scheme
- ECAS, conformity form (A)
- Evidence
- Test reports giving substance ratios
- Sale
- Only once the product conforms
Before sale Canada
No declaration or mark needed
- Checked
- Federal and Ontario rules
Take-back India
Two CPCB registrations first
- E-waste
- Register with CPCB before trading
- Batteries
- Register again, under the battery rules
Take-back United Arab Emirates
Free take-back bins in its stores
- Collect
- Bins in each sales centre
- Report
- Monthly, to the authority
- Costs
- Paid by the supplier
Take-back Canada
Ontario: register within 30 days
- Ontario
- Register within 30 days of first sale
- Covers
- Speakers and charging equipment
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Rules reach every step, from suppliers to repair
One rule at each step of a typical electronics and electrical organisation, and what it means for you.
Suppliers
From 18 August 2027, battery importers meeting the €40 million turnover test must run due diligence on four minerals.
Your sites
Where you solder with lead, EU law halves workers’ blood lead limit to 15 µg/100 ml from 2029.
Your products
Since January 2026, the EU F-gas Regulation has banned putting your new SF6 switchgear up to 24 kV into service.
Your markets
Minnesota will ban your products with intentionally added PFAS from 1 January 2032, unless their use is currently unavoidable.
Repair
Cables and spare parts for repairing equipment you sold before 22 July 2019 may still contain DEHP, under EU RoHS.
Projects for electronics and electrical
Each is scoped to your products, components and markets, and Foresight checks every result against its source.
Understand your exposure
All 7 projects- Market entry requirementsWhat a charger or power supply needs before it sells in a new market, from substance limits to labels.
- Substitution screeningReplacements for flame retardants in plastic cases or MCCPs in cable PVC, checked for their own restrictions.
- Substance risk heatmapEach restricted substance in your products, from lead to phthalates, scored market by market on one grid.
Keep watch
All 3 projectsKeep documents current
All 4 projectsDescribe the work. Foresight runs it and checks it.
Every project runs the same way, whatever the regulation. Here Foresight answers a customer’s substance questionnaire from your own records, and asks your suppliers for the rest.
Illustration of one project. The request reads: Answer this customer’s substance questionnaire from our records, and ask suppliers for what’s missing. Foresight reads the customer’s 86 questions and replies: I’ll answer what I can from your formulations, ask suppliers for the rest, and check each answer against its source. It plans the work: Read the questionnaire, Match each question to your records, Ask suppliers for the rest, Draft each answer with its source. Your records answer 79 of 86 questions. Foresight asks 3 suppliers for the other 7. Foresight checks each answer against its source, such as a supplier’s declaration that no PFAS are intentionally added. The answers go into the customer’s own file, each with its source, ready for Priya Nair, Product Stewardship Manager, to send back. Foresight goes on monitoring the rules behind each answer.
Say what you need in plain words, and share what you already have.
Foresight sets the scope, plans the work and drafts each deliverable with the sources it rests on.
Foresight checks each answer against its source.
The work comes back ready to use, and Foresight keeps it current as the rules change.
Your data, kept secure
Your data is kept in your organisation’s own workspace, separate from every other customer’s. It is encrypted in transit and at rest, including nightly backups, and is not shared with model providers for training. Foresight runs regular penetration tests.
How Foresight protects your data
What electronics teams ask
Does Foresight follow RoHS exemptions?
Yes. Foresight scores RoHS exemptions and restrictions for your products, most important first, and tracks the open consultations that touch your materials, with the date each one closes.
Does Foresight cover batteries?
Yes. Foresight watches the Batteries Regulation and the due diligence it asks for on the minerals in batteries. From 18 August 2027, if you import batteries and you or your group turn over €40 million or more, you must carry out due diligence on their cobalt, lithium, nickel and natural graphite.
Can Foresight answer our customers’ RoHS and REACH questionnaires?
Yes. Foresight drafts the answers from your own records and your suppliers’, and checks each one against its source. Where a product holds a Candidate List substance above 0.1%, such as lead in brass pins, Foresight also prepares the notification it needs.
What do you need from us?
A description of the work and the products it covers. Useful inputs include your bills of materials, the components and materials you buy, the markets you ship to and the supplier declarations you already hold. You also set how the work is judged, such as your own scoring scale.
Tell us the work you need done
Foresight talks through your products, components and markets with you. You’ll see the scope and the price before the project starts.
