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54 PCB007 MAGAZINE I SEPTEMBER 2019 The proposal coverage includes the raw mate- rials and mixtures because the safety data sheets (SDS) that describe them are, most of the time, provided on paper or in a PDF [4] ; this practice is not an efficient way to collect and to process the SDSs. Some XML standards already exist for supporting safety data sheets for raw materi - als and mixtures, such as SDScomXML [5] . This standard fully covers the 16 sections of the SDS and requires a large amount of work and time while for the scope of the above regulations; on - ly sections 1, 2, and 3 of SDS are of primary in- terest and could be supported with the IPC-1754 and IEC 62474 standards. Sectorial Data Exchange Standards Standards are either data exchange formats (such as IPC-1752, IPC-1754, or IEC 62474 XML format), sectorial tools developed by global or regional trade associations (IMDS, CAMDS), or by authorities (chemSHERPA [6] by Japan ME- TI). Table 1 includes a list of those standards. Our interest is only about data exchange for- mats, but trade associations are responsible to promote their tools to use the existing standard data exchange formats for their human-to-sys- tem, or system-to-system communication. This is the case today for some commercial software and chemSHERPA using the IPC-1752 and IEC 62474 standards. Materials and Substances Product Declarations The EU REACH regulation refers to "article" as a designation for products falling under its article 39, which raises one of the main man- dates for a supplier or manufacturer when de- livering their products to the market or a spe- cific customer to declare the SVHC if present in the article over the threshold of 0.1% of sub- stance mass over the article mass. In this article, we talk more generally about any product that could be such an article, but also a substance or a mixture (out of the scope Table 1: Existing data exchange standards, formats, and tools.