Applicable products
RoHS directive covers a wide range of products, covering almost all electronic, electrical, medical, communication, toys, security information and other products. It includes not only the whole machine products, but also all parts, raw materials and packaging parts of the whole production chain.
RoHS directive applies to the following types of equipment:
(1) Large household appliances;
(2) Small household appliances;
(3) It and telecommunications equipment (although infrastructure equipment is exempt in some countries)
(4) Consumer equipment;
(5) Lighting equipment;
(6) Electrical and electronic tools
(7) Toys, leisure and sports equipment;
(8) Medical devices;
(9) Monitoring and control tools
(10) Automatic distributor
Introduction to regulations
In 2006, the European Union enacted a compulsory standard ROHS directive, which is mainly used to regulate the material and process standards of electronic and electrical products. The purpose is to eliminate six substances including lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in electronic and electrical products, and the content of lead should not exceed 0.1%
In 2015, the European Union issued directive (EU) 2015 / 863 in its official journal to amend Annex II of RoHS 2.0 (2011 / 65 / EU), and formally listed four kinds of biphenyl dicarboxylate (DEHP, BBP, DBP, DiBP) in Annex II of RoHS 2.0, with the limit value of 0.1%
After the issuance of the directive, EU Member States should transfer the directive to national regulations before December 31, 2016
In order to give enterprises time to prepare, the corresponding transition period is also given in the directive
From July 22, 2019, all electronic and electrical products (except medical and monitoring equipment) are required to meet this restriction
From July 22, 2021, medical equipment (including in vitro medical equipment) and monitoring equipment (including industrial monitoring equipment) will also be included in the control scope
