I may not be able to answer all, but here's some ideas.... I would think that all exemptions would have to be in the body of RoHS or WEEE (as they are linked in scope). Changes to the body would have to occur by amendment of the Directive or perhaps Council Decisions (depending on the original legal structure of the directive). A good place for a snapshot of an original directive and its amendments is http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm. If you go to the left hand "simple search" item, you will see entry at bottom left for "consolidated text". This is a unofficial but authoritative rolling up of all amendments to a directive. There is an entry for RoHS there from Feb of 2010.
However, directives can also be "recast" under new base numbers. That is currently underway with WEEE and RoHS. It looks like they will have separate scopes going forward and RoHS will become a CE marking directive. It continues to have exemptions. This may be the source of your news of the 2014 extension. Chasing the developing recast is difficult because you have 3 different versions that are in flux, the Commission proposal, Parliaments reports and Councils ideas. Regards, Lauren Crane Applied Materials america - europe - asia Corporate Product EHS www.amat.com lauren crane (mr.) product regulatory analyst (t) +1.512.272.6540 [email protected] - external use - Save paper and trees! Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. Dan Roman <[email protected]> Sent by: [email protected] 06/08/2010 08:43 AM To "[email protected]" <[email protected]> cc Subject RE: [PSES] X-radiation shielding and RoHS Slightly off-topic, but I have always had difficultly navigating through the RoHS legislation and updates. I usually start at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/weee/legis_en.htm, but find the morass of legislation incomplete (or at least hard to follow). For example, it is easy to see where the new exemptions and the banning of Deca-BDE are documented, but where are extensions of existing exemptions that were up for review documented? Case in point, I've heard it widely stated that based on the TAC review, the exemption for lead in solders for servers and network infrastructure equipment was extended to 1 August 2014. Is the lack of legislation removing the exemption the default for the extension or are extensions documented someplace else that I have not found yet? Thanks for any insight, Dan From: Fred Townsend [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 3:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PSES] X-radiation shielding and RoHS Only if applied to gold bricks. Fred From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Haynes, Tim (SELEX GALILEO, UK) Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 12:26 AM To: John Woodgate; [email protected] Subject: RE: [PSES] X-radiation shielding and RoHS Hi Does "Gold Plating" improve the efficiency of the lead shielding? ;-) Tim ************************ Tim Haynes Electromagnetic Engineering Specialist SELEX Galileo, A Finmeccanica Company 300 Capability Green Luton LU1 3PG (Phone () +44 (0) 1582 886239 (Mob )) +44 (0) 7540629920 (Fax 7)+44 (0)1582 795863 (Email *) [email protected] www.selexgalileo.com P Please consider the environment before printing this email. There are 10 types of people in the world-those who understand binary and those who don't. J. Paxman From: John Woodgate [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 04 June 2010 21:02 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PSES] X-radiation shielding and RoHS *** WARNING *** This message has originated outside your organisation, either from an external partner or the Global Internet. Keep this in mind if you answer this message. In message <[email protected]>, dated Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Nick Williams <[email protected]> writes: >No John, I don't think this is a fair interpretation. In fact my >impression from the discussion was that the civil service approach, in >this case at least, is to try to ensure the UK implementation consists >of the absolute minimum which is required by the Directive. Good: I'm glad to hear that. We did have a lot of trouble with gold-plating 20 years ago or so, so it's about time some enthusiast tried it again. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. 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