The European Union (EU), which early in 2003 passed a new Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive that limits the use of lead, cadmium and other hazardous substances. We are in the process of getting the approval of our customer for our new product,for our new customer, Toyota, and yet it is requiring us to submit the declaration that all materials, including the lubricants, Ensis Oil, should have proof that it does not have any Harmful or restricted chemical substances.

Therefore, I am seeking help from you, if you can provide me a bit of information, links, or sites that can direct and lead me to the document declaring that Shell Ensis Oil does not have these harmful substances, Mercury, Cadmium, Lead, and Hexavalent Chromium.

Thank you very much. God bless you.;)

You can find the list of "Global Automotive Declarable Substance List" at www.gadsl.org

This list has been agreed to internationally by the Automotive OEMs. It contains substances and materials that are either prohibited or declarable when contained in products or materials that are supplied to them.

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But then RoHS only applies to certain categories of electronic equipment, and an automobile is not classed as 'electronic equipment'.

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An interesting point is a radio installed into cars in manufacture are exempt from RoHS but car radios to be fitted after market are not.

But then RoHS only applies to certain categories of electronic equipment, and an automobile is not classed as 'electronic equipment'.

As it involves chemicals, could it be a precursor for REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of CHemical) due to be enforced on 1st July this year. See the following link.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/reach/reach_intro.htm

RoHS doesn't really involve chemicals. REACH directly addresses chemicals used in manufacturing i.e. things like acids, bases, gases etc.

RoHS stipulates maximum concentration of certain substances which may be contained within electronic components and assemblies, e.g. lead in solder.

They are both the same sort of thing, reducing the amounts of hazardous substances that can be used by industry, but are focussed at different areas. It is without doubt it is the same people behind both of these directives they just focussed at different areas.

The European Union (EU), which early in 2003 passed a new Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive that limits the use of lead, cadmium and other hazardous substances. We are in the process of getting the approval of our customer for our new product,for our new customer, Toyota, and yet it is requiring us to submit the declaration that all materials, including the lubricants, Ensis Oil, should have proof that it does not have any Harmful or restricted chemical substances.

Therefore, I am seeking help from you, if you can provide me a bit of information, links, or sites that can direct and lead me to the document declaring that Shell Ensis Oil does not have these harmful substances, Mercury, Cadmium, Lead, and Hexavalent Chromium.

Thank you very much. God bless you.;)

It is correct that RoHS does not apply for automobiles.

The reason your customer wants information is because automobiles are covered by the End of Life Vehicles Directive (ELV) and the list of restricted substances is pretty much the same as for RoHS. Shell will have submitted their own materials assessment under the automotive IMDS database. If you ask your customer to check if the material is on (unless you have IMDS access yourself). The front page can be accessed here (http://www.mdsystem.com/index.jsp).