EU · REACH Annex XVII entry 77; Regulation (EU) 2023/1464
Formaldehyde emissions from furniture and articles
Identify the market and product category first. Each dossier separates legal duties, referenced standards, evidence and the comparison needed for an award.
Product Scope
Articles releasing formaldehyde to indoor air, subject to the entry’s exclusions. Furniture and wood-based articles have a distinct limit; road-vehicle interiors have a later date. Natural formaldehyde sources and articles covered by exclusions must not be assigned a limit without checking their legal conditions.
Requirements
For covered articles placed on the market after 6 August 2026, the chamber concentration limits are 0.062 mg/m³ for furniture and wood-based articles and 0.080 mg/m³ for other articles. Apply Appendix 14 test conditions and the whole complex-product assessment; a panel-content or desiccator result is not numerically interchangeable with a chamber emission result.
Required Evidence
Provide exact finished-product and material identification, chamber method and loading, conditioning, temperature/humidity, sampling and analytical results, method correlation if another test route is used, and a reasoned assessment of the complete furniture product.
Comparison for the Awards
A lower reliable chamber concentration may be compared with the applicable maximum under the prescribed conditions. Do not report a concentration below the detection limit as zero, or use an exempt material’s result to claim compliance for a complete assembled product.
Version & Transition
Article restrictions apply after 6 August 2026; the road-vehicle interior provision applies after 6 August 2027. Keep the entry’s separate exemption conditions and dates visible.
Official Sources
Applicability depends on the product classification, intended use, configuration and actual sales territory. Manufacturing, placing-on-the-market and testing dates, together with transition provisions, are checked as required by each applicable rule. The directory identifies sources; it does not replace assessment of the specific model. Standards are identified by reference, and their authoritative texts remain with the issuing bodies. Official source documents retain their original language.