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The Current Position on Exemptions --
(September 2005)
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The list of exemptions and applications for exemptions continues to expand.
It is important to keep you up to date with the changes as soon as they develop.
Therefore, we have introduced this new section of RoHS Exemptions.
The RoHS legislation does not apply to: -
- Large-scale stationary industrial tools. (This is a machine or system, consisting of a combination of equipment, systems or products, each of which is manufactured and intended to be used only in fixed industrial applications).
- Spare parts for the repair of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) placed on the market before 1 July 2006 and to replacement components that expand the capacity of and/or upgrade of EEE placed on the market before 1 July 2006.
- The reuse of EEE placed on the market before 1 July 2006.
- Electrical and electronic equipment that is part of another type of equipment (eg. a car radio)
- The specific applications of mercury, lead, cadmium and hexavalent chromium set out below.
Applications of lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalent
chromium, which are exempted from the requirements of Article 4(1) of the RoHS
Directive
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Mercury
in compact fluorescent lamps not exceeding 5 mg per lamp.
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Mercury
in straight fluorescent lamps for general purposes not exceeding:
- halophosphate 10 mg
- triphosphate with normal lifetime 5 mg
- triphosphate with long lifetime 8 mg
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Mercury
in straight fluorescent lamps for special purposes
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Mercury
in other lamps not specifically mentioned in this Annex
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Lead
in glass of cathode ray tubes, electronic components and fluorescent tubes
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Lead
as an alloying element in steel containing up to 0,35 % lead by weight,
aluminium containing up to 0,4 % lead by weight and as a copper alloy
containing up to 4 % lead by weight
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lead in high melting temperature type solders (i.e. lead-based alloys
containing 85 % by weight or more lead)
- lead in solders for servers, storage and storage array systems, network
infrastructure equipment for switching, signalling, transmission as well as
network management for telecommunications
- lead in electronic ceramic parts (e.g. piezoelectronic devices)
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Cadmium
and its compounds in electrical contacts and cadmium plating except for
applications banned under Directive 91/338/EEC (1) amending Directive
76/769/EEC (2) relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain
dangerous substances and preparations
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Hexavalent
chromium as an anti-corrosion of the carbon steel cooling system in
absorption refrigerators
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Lead
used in compliant pin connector systems
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Lead
as a coating material for the thermal conduction module c-ring
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Lead
and cadmium in optical and filter glass
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Lead
in solders consisting of more than two elements for the connection between
the pins and the package of microprocessors with a lead content of more than
80% and less than 85% by weight
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Lead
in solders to complete a viable electrical connection between semiconductor
die and carrier within integrated circuit Flip Chip packages
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Approved for publication Oct. /
Nov. 2005
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Lead
based alloys containing 85 % by weight or more lead
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Lead
in solders for servers, storage and storage array systems, network
infrastructure equipment for switching, signalling, transmission as well as
network management for telecommunications
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Cadmium
and its compounds in electrical contacts and cadmium plating except for
applications banned under Directive
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Lead
used in compliant pin connector systems
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Lead
as a coating material for the thermal conduction module c-ring
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Lead
and cadmium in optical and filter glass
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Lead
in solders consisting of more than two elements for the connection between
the pins and the package of microprocessors with a lead content of more than
80% and less than 85% by weight
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Lead
in solders to complete a viable electrical connection between semiconductor
die and carrier within integrated circuit Flip Chip packages
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Requests currently under
review
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Lead
in tin whisker resistant coatings for fine pitch applications
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Lead
bound in glass, crystal glass, lead crystal or full lead crystal in general
and Chromium (also in oxidation state (VI)) and Cadmium as colouring batch
addition each form up to a content of 2 % in glass, crystal glass, lead
crystal or full lead crystal used as decorative and / or functional part of
electric or electronic equipment
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Solders
containing lead and/or cadmium for specific applications
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Hexavalent
chromium (CRVI) passivation coatings
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Lead
in lead oxide glass plasma display panels
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Lead
in connectors, flexible printed circuits, flexible flat cables
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Lead
oxide in lead glass, bonding materials of magnetic heads and magnetic heads
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Cadmium
as doping material in avalanche photodiodes (APDs) for the optical fiber
communication systems
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Lead
in optical isolators
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Lead
in sheath heater of Microwaves
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Cadmium
pigments except for applications banned under Directive 91/338/EEC amending
Directive 76/769/EEC relating to the restriction on the marketing and use of
certain substances
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High
Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps for professional U.V. applications,
containing lead halide as radiant agent
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Discharge
lamps for special purposes containing lead as activator in the fluorescent
powder (1% lead by weight or less)
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Discharge
lamps containing lead in the form of an amalgam
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Mercury
free flat panel lamp
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Special
purposes Black Light Blue (BLB) lamps, containing lead in the glass envelope
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Low
melting point alloys containing lead
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Galvanised
steel containing up to 0.35% lead by weight and aluminium with an unintended
lead content up to 0.4% lead by weight in electrical and electronic equipment
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Cadmium
sulphide photocells
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Requests awaiting review
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Linear
incandescent lamp
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Mercury
in switches
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Special
ICs having tin-lead solder plating on leads used in professional equipment
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Specific
modular units including tin-lead solder being used in special professional
equipment
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Solders
containing lead and / or cadmium for specific applications where local
temperature is higher than 150 deg C and which need to work properly more
than 500 hours
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Lead
in solder for printed circuit boards for emergency lighting products
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Hexavalent
chromium (Cr-VI) in chromate conversion coatings as surface treatment
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Lead
in gas sensors
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Concerning
of PbO (Lead in Seal Frit) used for making BLU (Back Light Unit) Lam
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Cadmium
in opto-electronic components
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Non-consumer
mechanical power transmission systems including speed reducers and mechanical
couplings which rely on electrical / electronic components for safe control
and operation
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Electrical
and electronic components contained in heating ventilation and air
conditioning building systems, commercial refrigeration systems and transport
refrigeration systems
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Cadmium-bearing
copper alloys
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Electrical
/ electronic components contained in mobile and stationary air compressors
and vacuum systems, compressed air contaminant removal systems and pneumatic
contractor's air tools
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Electrical
/ electronic equipment that are: used in transport-aviation, aerospace, road,
maritime, rail; installed into the fabric of buildings – elevators,
escalators, moving walks, dumb waiter, and heating, cooling and ventilation
systems, and fire and security systems; used in the energy generation and
transmission; used in mining and mineral processing; used for non-consumer
mechanical power transmission systems; industrial process pumps and
compressors; used in industrial refrigeration; and used in military
applications
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Lead
alloys as electrical / mechanical solder for transducers used in high-powered
professional and commercial loudspeakers
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Cadmium
oxide
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Solder
tin of the thermo fuse with a defined low melting point
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Lead
in lead oxide glass used in plasma display panel (PDP)
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Lead
in solder on small PCB and tinned legs of primary components
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Use
of the not lead free component NEC V25 in the Memor 2000
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Lead
used in shielding of radiation for Non Medical X-ray equipment
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Lead
based solders sealed or captured within heat-shrinkable components and
devices
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Batteries are not part of the RoHS Directive and are covered by their own
legislation.
The UK Government believes that Military equipment is exempt. However, there
is no specific exemption for aircraft and some equipment used within an
aircraft is within the scope.
Also note that the Hazardous Substances Directive bans many other
substances. This includes two of the PBDE flame-retardants – Penta and
Octa-BDE. The sale of these was banned from August 2004.
Note however that most other brominated flame-retardants are safe to
use.
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