IPC-1758

Declaration Requirements
for Shipping, Pack and
Packing Materials

Developed by the Supplier Declaration Subcommittee

of the Declaration of Shipping, Pack and Packing Materials
Task Group of IPC

Pre-publication: Users of this publication are encouraged to participate in the

March 2012 development of future revisions.

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Table of Contents
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Appendix E REACH Substances of Very High
Concern (SVHC) List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1 SCOPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Appendix F UML Model Characteristics for
1.1 Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Packaging Declarations Standard . . . . . . 23

1.2 Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Appendix G Verification Guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Figures
2 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Figure 1-1 Representation of 1751 Schema to Include
2.1 IPC Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Packing Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2.2 WC3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Figure 1-2 Name Configurations of Sectional and
3 REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 SubSectional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3.1 Terms and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Figure 1-3 XML Schema for Classification Descriptions
4 DATA MODEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 (Only A, B, C Apply) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

5 MULTIPLE PACKING CONFIGURATIONS . . . . . . . . . . 6 Figure 4-1 Design Data Model for IPC-1758 Pack and
Packing Material Declaration Requirements . . . . . . 5
6 DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA FIELDS . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Figure 5-1 Data Model for SubSectional Use Case
6.1 EU Packaging Directive (EU Directive on Packaging description through name Attribute string . . . . . . . . 6
and Packaging Waste - 94/62/EC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Figure 6-1 Query list UML Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.2 REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation,
and restriction of Chemicals) Article 67 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Figure 6-2 Query List Description Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . 8

6.3 EU REACH SVHC Candidate List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Figure F-1 UML Model Characteristics for Materials
Declarations Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
6.4 The Joint Industry Guide (JIG)-201 Material
Composition Declaration for Packaging of Tables
Electrotechnical Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Table 1-1 Material Declaration Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
6.5 Custom Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Table B1-1 Field Attributes of Product Information Section . . . 14
6.6 Restricted use of Class B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Table B1-2 Field Attributes of Class A Query List . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.7 Material Composition Summary Declaration – Product Table B1-3 Field Attributes of Class B Material Groups . . . . . . 14
Level (Class C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Table B1-4 Field Attributes of Class C Packing Material
6.8 Additional Substances for Material Composition Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Declaration – Product Pack Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Table B1-5 Other Material Composition Declaration for
6.9 Other Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Material Summary (Class C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7 IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Table C1-1 Packaging Substances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7.1 Applicability of 1751A Section 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Table D1-1 JIG-201 List of Restricted Substances . . . . . . . . . . 18
7.2 1758 Rules to Extend Schema Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Table D1-2 JIG-201 List of Assessment Only Substances . . . . . 20
Appendix A Additional References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Table D1-3 JIG-201 List of Informational Substances . . . . . . . .20
Appendix B Field Mapping and Descriptions . . . . . . . 14
Appendix C EU Packaging Directive Substances . . . . 16 Table E1-3 REACH SVHCs Published on 06/20/2011 Not
in JIG-201 (Include Rev/Edition #) . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Appendix D JIG-201 Material Composition
Declaration for Packaging of
Electrotechnical Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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Generic Requirements for Declaration of Shipping,

Pack and Packing Materials

Foreword
This standard addresses the industry need for exchange of information regarding the materials used to protect products during
shipment between supply chain partners. This standard is one of several in the 175x series of standards that permits segmentation
of declaration details based on the subject and scope of the declaration. This standard describes essential information exchange
content with respect to packing, supplemented by regulation references for materials, marking, recycling information and recycled
content that may be desired to complete the data package.

1 SCOPE
This standard establishes the requirements for exchanging packing declarations between members of a supply chain. Section 3.1
Terms and Definitions defines “packing.” Although this standard contains only generic information regarding packing declaration,
when combined with the latest version of the IPC-1751 sectional standard, the resulting document set defines the declaration
information.
This standard pertains to both hard copy and electronic data descriptions. This standard provides for the creation of a record
between trading partners, and therefore the data communicated may be used to help support and demonstrate due diligence in any
subsequent representation based upon its contents. This standard is not intended for use by the public when making purchasing
decisions.

1.1 Purpose
The purpose of this standard is to establish a data exchange standard for packing related information including a method for
declaration of substance content and recycled content of packing materials between suppliers and their customers. The form,
structure, and content of the declaration are intended to be conveyed electronically in a standard format, thereby providing
consistency, efficiency, and integrity to the declaration process.
In order to facilitate the incorporation of this sectional standard into the XML schema, it is required that the appropriate element be
identified. This is accomplished through the description of the “Include” element as defined in Figure 1.1.

IPC-1758-1-1

Figure 1-1 Representation of 1751 Schema to Include Packing Information

This sectional standard may be invoked several times depending on the nature of the Material Declaration Classification (see 1.2)
and the appropriate “Use Case” describing Multiple Packing Configurations (see 5.) Each time this sectional is included in the
“MainDeclaration” file, the name of the sectional shall be used.
The enumerated string “name” for the requirements of the IPC-1758 is identified as “PackingProductsDeclaration” as shown in
Figure 1-2. The “names” of the subsections refer to the Declaration Classification and the Multiple Packing Configuration.