INDUSTRIESAutomotive
Automotive & Components
A single component can carry six regulations at once — substances, embedded cells, the steel it is pressed from, the smelters behind its contacts, and a carbon figure your customer needs for its own reporting.
TRADE LANE
Non-EU tier-one or tier-two supplier selling parts, assemblies or modules into EU vehicle manufacturers.
FIRST THING THAT BREAKS
An IMDS entry is offered where REACH asks for the SVHC determination per article, not per assembly.
REGULATIONS THAT REACH YOU
What each of these wants from you.
Your sector is a starting point, not a determination. Which regulations reach a company depends on its products — that is what the platform works out.
Six regulations reaching one part list. Four of them read the same bill of materials, and two want a carbon figure on different bases.
REACHSVHC screening at 0.1% w/w per article — measured on each part in the assembly, not across the assembly as a whole.OPEN →RoHSTen restricted substances per homogeneous material, with a technical file under EN IEC 63000 behind the declaration.OPEN →BatteryFor any cell or pack: carbon footprint per model and plant, recycled content, and due diligence on cobalt, lithium, nickel and graphite.OPEN →CBAMWhere steel or aluminium enters the EU on your account: monitored actual emissions per installation and production route, not a supplier average.OPEN →Conflict MineralsTin in solder, tungsten in contacts, gold in connectors — smelter list and origin, confirmed when a buyer invites you.OPEN →Scope 3A per-part footprint your customer can allocate into its own Category 1 inventory.OPEN →
ON THE GROUND
Four things a component supplier hits in the first month.
01One BOM answers three regulations, collected three timesREACH, RoHS and Conflict Minerals all read the same materials list, and it is usually re-gathered for each.
02IMDS is not a REACH answerA material datasheet in the customer’s system does not carry the per-article SVHC determination Article 33 asks for.
03The battery arrives inside the partA sensor or module with a cell attached pulls the Batteries Regulation onto a part list nobody flagged for it.
04Two carbon figures, one production lineCBAM and your customer’s Scope 3 start from the same energy records on different boundaries — and the numbers do not interchange.
IN THE PLATFORM
Exposure for one automotive supplier.
ILLUSTRATIVE PLATFORM VIEW · NOT A REAL CUSTOMER ACCOUNT
