In the near future, European Union will renew the RoHS instruction exemption list once more, and establish the period from September 2, 2005 to October 28 to be solicitation opinion time.

 

It is reported, European Union committee adopted "Limit the usage of Certain Deleterious substances of Electron Electrical equipment Instruction" (namely the RoHS instruction) 4 (1) on January 27, 2003 which stipulated that, "since July 1, 2006, the new electron electrical equipment sold in the market does not include the six kind of deleterious substances of lead, the mercury, chromium, the multi- bromines and the multi- bromines biphenyl phenylate”. On this August 18, this committee also passed the committee resolution (2005/618/EC) of " to Revise the European Union Parliament And the Committee 2002/95/EC Instruction for Establishing the most limitation of Certain Deleterious substances In Electron Electrical equipment ", established biggest permission content of the lead, the mercury, chromium, the multi- bromines biphenyl and the multi- bromines biphenyl phenylate in the electron electrical equipment, this instruction appendix listed the product list exception of this request.

 

Since the second time solicitation opinion from this January to February, the European Union committee started once more to solicit the opinion of the renewed exemption list, this list altogether contained 23 items, had the momentous change comparing with the recently 22 items, the product category had been enlarged, and the certain aspects also refined.

 

In view of the fact that the RoHS instruction is of vital significance to the our mechanical and electrical product exportation, the national quality testing bureau especially reminds correlation department, export enterprise, profession business association and development facility to earnestly study this new exemption list, gives the comment positively, strives for the negative influence of the RoHS instruction falling to the lowest.

 

        RoHS instruction new exception list（2005-9-2）

1. Linear incandescent lamp；

2. Mercury in switches；

3. Special ICs having tin-lead solder plating on leads used in professional equipment；

4. Specific modular units including tin-lead solder being used in special professional equipment；

5. 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；

6. Lead in solder for printed circuit boards for emergency lighting products；

7. Hexavalent chromium (Cr-VI) in chromate conversion coatings as surface treatment；

8. Lead in gas sensors；

9. Concerning of PbO (Lead in Seal Frit) used for making BLU (Back Light Unit) Lamp；

10. Cadmium in opto-electronic components；

11. Non-consumer mechanical power transmission systems including speed reducers and mechanical couplings which rely on electrical/electronic components for safe control and operation；

12. Electrical and electronic components contained in heating ventilating and air conditioning building systems, commercial refrigeration systems and transport refrigeration systems；

13. Cadmium-bearing copper alloys；

14. Electrical/electronic components contained mobile and stationary air compressors and vacuum systems, compressed air contaminant removal systems and pneumatic contractor’s air tools；

15. Electrical/electronic equipment that are: used in transport -aviation, aerospace, road, maritime, rail; installed in to the fabric of buildings – elevators, escalators, moving walks, dumb waiters, 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；

16. Lead alloys as electrical/mechanical solder for transducers used in high-powered professional and commercial loudspeakers；

17. Cadmium oxide；

18. Solder tin of the thermo fuse with a defined low melting point；

19. Lead in lead oxide glass used in plasma display panel (PDP)；

20. Lead in solder on small PCB and tinned legs of primary components；

21. Use of the not lead free component NEC V25 in the Memor 2000；

22. Lead used in shielding of radiation for Non Medical X-ray equipment；

23. Lead based solders sealed or captured within heat-shrinkable components and devices.