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SEPTEMBER 2019 I PCB007 MAGAZINE 51 using its GADSL tool. IMDS was rebuilt with new technology (NT). Currently, IMDS in- cludes a "process chemicals" substances list, but a new list will be issued by the Global List of Automotive Process Substances (GLAPS). China has put in place its own system for the automotive sector: the China Automotive Ma- terial Data System (CAMDS). In 2012, the aerospace and defense (AD) sec- tor started their work on defining their require- ments for their specific needs to address the EU REACH regulations (EU RoHS was out of their scope, except for ground equipment and systems). They include reporting the process chemicals to address their long-life products and the associated obsolescence technology risk if one critical substance for their surface treatments came under REACH authorization. On 2015, they decided to implement the new IPC-1754 standard in the IPC-175x series to ben - efit the IPC-1751 foundation. The heavy equip- ment (HE) sector joined this initiative in 2016 and added EU RoHS support requirements. Covering for Substances and Materials Data Exchange Formats On one side, the trend is surely more and more regulations on hazardous substances and materials in products due to the current situation. On the other side, the EU REACH update of the candidate list every six months has changed the approach for companies to support such regulation moving from home - made tools supporting the stable ELV and RoHS regulations to more out-of-the-box tools with more interfaces to collect the suppliers' data either directly or with services from data providers and their databases for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components. Some sectors have established their sectorial unique substances list to simplify globally the reporting against all applicable regulations for their sector. Such substances lists include all regulated substances but also the substances that could become regulated in the short or medium term to avoid unnecessary update of their supplier declarations that costs money and time. Figure 4 shows the most used secto- rial lists. Recent European Directives have been up- dated: • European RoHS update (EC 2015/863) with four phthalates (used in particular in plastics) added into annex II Figure 3: The IEC 62474 journey. (Source: IEC TC111 WG1)