The updates to the Global Automotive Declarable Substance List (GADSL), revised as of February 1, 2025, have been applied to IMDS on March 14, 2025.

GADSL Overview

• Global Automotive Declarable Substance List

• Created through information exchange by GASG (Global Automotive Stakeholder Group)

• Consolidates major global regulations into a single list to help minimize supply chain requirements for individual companies

• Includes information on regulations and general applications of substances

• Updated and published annually in the first half of the year (Sometimes more than twice a year)

• GADSL references (Click "Reference List" at the bottom right)
  
  

Key Changes

• Reclassification of existing GADSL substances: 51 cases

  • D/P → P (10 cases)

  • P → D/P (2 cases)

  • D → D/P (34 cases)

  • D/P → D (2 cases)

  • D/P/SVHC → D (3 cases)

• Unflagged & status change to Hidden: 1 case (CAS: 1327-52-2)

• Newly Added to IMDS & GADSL: 78 cases & all added as “D”

• Existing substances in IMDS with newly assigned GADSL classifications

  • See the “Basic Substances which will be added to GADSL” section in the attached document for details

Related Links

• GADSL background, history, and classification definitions

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