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The Double Materiality Assessment (DMA) Toolkit is a downloadable resource from the Global Electronics Association, published on electronics.org, that gives electronics companies a practical, industry-specific starting point for their Double Materiality Assessment. It is aimed at teams that need to evaluate which sustainability topics are relevant to their business and meet regulatory requirements, and it is designed to reduce the time spent researching the industry so that more time goes into the actual relevance evaluation. You get it by requesting or downloading the toolkit from the site.
What problem the toolkit addresses
A Double Materiality Assessment is the exercise of judging a company's sustainability topics from two angles at once: how the company affects people and the environment, and how sustainability matters affect the company's financial position. For electronics manufacturers, that means working through a long list of candidate topics — from supply chain labor practices to hazardous substances, energy use, and product end-of-life — and deciding which ones are material enough to report on.
The hard part is rarely the concept. It is the industry groundwork: understanding which topics are typically relevant for electronics, how peers frame them, and what regulators expect to see. The toolkit is positioned as a way to cut that groundwork. As the site describes it, it helps teams "spend less time researching the industry and more time evaluating what is relevant and meeting regulatory requirements."
What the toolkit is and is not
| It is | It is not |
|---|---|
| A practical, industry-specific starting point for a DMA | A finished, company-specific materiality conclusion |
| A way to reduce upfront industry research | A substitute for your own stakeholder input and data |
| Framed around meeting regulatory requirements | A legal or compliance guarantee |
The distinction matters. A DMA is only defensible if it reflects your own operations, value chain, and stakeholders. The toolkit shortens the ramp-up; it does not make the judgment for you.
Who should consider it
The toolkit fits teams that:
- Are electronics companies or suppliers preparing a Double Materiality Assessment for the first time
- Already understand the DMA concept but lack an electronics-specific reference point
- Want to align internal discussions faster by starting from a shared industry baseline
It is less useful if you have already completed a DMA and are looking for a benchmarking or scoring tool, or if you need a sector outside electronics.
How to get it
The toolkit is offered through electronics.org under the heading "Double Materiality Assessment (DMA) Toolkit," with a call to action to get the toolkit. The site does not state pricing or login requirements for this item, so treat access terms as unconfirmed until you open the request flow. Note that other resources on the same page, such as the European EMS Industry Report midyear update, are explicitly sold through the association's store — so not everything on electronics.org is free, and it is worth checking each item individually.
Where it sits among related resources
The DMA Toolkit is one of several industry-facing publications on the site, alongside research on AI adoption in PCB manufacturing, a white paper on FCC router rules, and European EMS industry reports. If your goal is sustainability reporting specifically, the DMA Toolkit is the relevant one; the others address trade, supply chain, and technology topics.