Amund, What an interesting question. I would start from the perspective of equipment placed on the EU market. Presumably an EU flag ship is EU owned, and therefore the electronics (even if only as an integral part of the vessel) would be procured from within the EU, and therefore would have been placed on the EU market - hence RoHS applies. Considering ships built in the EU, albeit for export, the electronics will have been purchased at some point within the EU and will therefore have been placed on the EU market, hence RoHS also applies in this case. Interestingly, picking up on the recent thread on China RoHS, one of the first equipment categories listed in that legislation is marine radar equipment. I would expect most other electrionic navigation equipment (GPS, chartplotters, echosounders, radio equipment, etc) to also be considered to be ITE equipment and hence be within the legislation in both EU and China. As a manufacturer of components for marine radar, we are assuming that they will have to be RoHS compliant, even though many OEMs are located outside both EU and China, since much of the end-user market is within these countries. Best regards
Neil R. Barker CEng MIEE FSEE MIEEE Manager Compliance Engineering e2v technologies (uk) ltd 106 Waterhouse Lane Chelmsford Essex CM1 2QU UK Tel: (+44) 1245 453616 Fax: (+44) 1245 453410 Mob: (+44) 7801 723735 From: Amund Westin [mailto:am...@westin-emission.no] Sent: 08 March 2006 22:13 To: emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: RoHS - marine equipment 1) Does RoHS apply for electronics installed on EU flagg ships? I assume that. 2) Does RoHS apply for electronics installed on a non-EU flagg ships, which are build in EU and the classification society (i.e. Lloyd's Register) is also located within EU? I do not know .... Anybody who have been into such cases? Regards Amund Westin Oslo / Norway - ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald: emc-p...@daveheald.com All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
