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Written by Ecotp Staff
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Thursday, 30 October 2008 16:54 |
 The RoHS directive provides that electric and electronic equipments marketed in Europe should be free from lead, cadmium, mercury exhavalent chronium polybrominated biphenyls.
This affects she whole product chain from supplies, to production, from sales to retails of electric and electronics marketed on thr European market.
To comply with the RoHS directive it will be necesssary for producers to ensure availability all along the supply chain of materials and components abiding by the directive. The final producer then becomes responsible for the whole product, all components included.
For instance, cellphone producers, who assemble their own chips and parts acquired by others, are - acccording to RoHS - responsible for the whole item, "parts included".
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Last Updated on Monday, 20 April 2009 08:16 |
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Hazardous Substances
The directive is applied to electrical and electronic equipments that - for a correct functioning - depend on and interact with electromagnetic fields. Moreover, it is applied to all equipments generating, transferring or measuring electromagnetic fields or currents that fall within one of the categories listed in Annex IA of WEEE directive (2002/96/EC) and projected for use with indirect tension lesser than 1000 volts and direct tension lesser than 1500 volts.
Here are the basics of the selfdeclaration employed in many other EU directives. No specific marks or an independent "third paryt" testing are required. Nevertheless competent EU national authorities keep the market under surveillance and control products.