EU - Study to Assess Requests for Renewal of Seven Exemptions of RoHS 2 Directive

​A new RoHS project (Pack 24) for the assessment of seven exemptions requests listed in Annex III and Annex IV of Directive 2011/65/EU (RoHS 2 Directive) has started. The study shall cover exemptions 18(b), 18(b)-I, 24, 29, 32 and 34 of Annex III and exemption 34 of Annex IV.

Annex III, 18(b)
Lead as activator in the fluorescent powder (1% lead by weight or less) of discharge lamps when used as sun tanning lamps containing phosphors such as BSP.

Annex III, 18(b)-I
Lead as activator in the fluorescent powder (1% lead by weight or less) of discharge lamps containing phosphors such as BSP when used in medical phototherapy equipment.​

Annex III, 24
Lead in solders for the soldering to machined through hole discoidal and planar array ceramic multilayer capacitors

Annex III, 29
Lead bound in crystal glass as defined in Annex I (Categories 1, 2, 3 and 4) of Council Directive 69/493/EEC.

Annex III, 32
Lead oxide in seal frit used for making window assemblies for Argon and Krypton laser tubes.

Annex III, 34
Lead in cermet-based trimmer potentiometer elements

Annex IV, 34
Lead as an activator in the fluorescent powder of discharge lamps when used for extracorporeal photopheresis lamps containing BSP (BaSi₂O₅:Pb) phosphors.

Assignment of project tasks to Oeko-Institut started on December 17, 2020 and will run over a period of 10 months, thus ending October 16, 2021. An interim report shall be delivered to the European Commission in the end of May 2021. The final report is due at the end of the project.

A stakeholder consultation is planned to be lanuched towards end of March 2021.