We were reading a copy of the RoHS that we retrieved from: http://www.dti.gov.uk/sustainability/pdfs/finalrohs.pdf and found it to be interesting. As a result we have questions, but first the key parts that raise the questions:
In Article 4 / Prevention it says: 1. Member States shall ensure that, from 1 July 2006, new electrical and electronic equipment put on the market does not contain lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers......... 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to the applications listed in the Annex. Then in the Annex it says: 5. Lead in glass of cathode ray tubes, electronic components and fluorescent tubes. 7. - Lead in high melting temperature type solders (i.e. tin-lead solder alloys containing more than 85 % lead), - lead in solders for servers, storage and storage array systems (exemption granted until 2010), - lead in solders for network infrastructure equipment for switching, signalling, transmission as well as network management for telecommunication, - lead in electronic ceramic parts (e.g. piezoelectronic devices). Most component companies are now working on getting the lead out, but the way I read this they do not need to. What is meant by electronic component? Could I call our assemblies an "electronic component" and not have to change anything? Comments? Thoughts? Jim Jim Bacher, Senior Engineer Paxar Americas, Inc. 170 Monarch Lane Miamisburg, Ohio 45342 USA e-mail: jim.bac...@paxar.com voice: 1-937-865-2020 fax: 1-937-865-2048 This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
