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The RoHS directive is Environmental legislation aimed at reducing the amount of hazardous materials used in electronic products - It covers Lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium and specific flame retardants (PBB and PBDE), requiring a wide range of product types sold on the European market to be virtually free of these materials (to aid recycling and reduce nasties getting into the environment).
To any organisation manufacturing electronic or electrical equipment that is to be sold into the E.U (and other areas), the current and future status of products covered by RoHS (or RoHS-like) legislation will be of great importance. If product containing the restricted materials is released onto the market , then prosecution and a possible unlimited financial penalty may follow.
The deadline for compliance of our products is 01 July 2006, which is not very far away at all
Some links below give some additional information.
http://www.cfsd.org.uk/seeba/Europe/RoHS Fact Sheet.htm
And California's own equivalent legislation:
http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/electronics/act2003/
There's also a 'China RoHS' but that's been put back six months......
So the question is, who's doing what, and how far down the line are you... are you finding obsolescense a problem, are smaller suppliers going to get buried?
I am getting heavily involved in this (currently working for an organisation manufacturing test and inspection equipment) and the more that I focus on the RoHS directive, the bigger a job it becomes..... :mg:
To any organisation manufacturing electronic or electrical equipment that is to be sold into the E.U (and other areas), the current and future status of products covered by RoHS (or RoHS-like) legislation will be of great importance. If product containing the restricted materials is released onto the market , then prosecution and a possible unlimited financial penalty may follow.
The deadline for compliance of our products is 01 July 2006, which is not very far away at all
Some links below give some additional information.
http://www.cfsd.org.uk/seeba/Europe/RoHS Fact Sheet.htm
And California's own equivalent legislation:
http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/electronics/act2003/
There's also a 'China RoHS' but that's been put back six months......
So the question is, who's doing what, and how far down the line are you... are you finding obsolescense a problem, are smaller suppliers going to get buried?
I am getting heavily involved in this (currently working for an organisation manufacturing test and inspection equipment) and the more that I focus on the RoHS directive, the bigger a job it becomes..... :mg: