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News Release from: Rapid Electronics
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 May 2005
Component portfolio moves towards
compliance
Rapid is taking action to ensure that the products it sells are compliant with RoHS and WEEE legislation prior to the respective deadlines.
Rapid is taking action to ensure that the products it sells are compliant with RoHS and WEEE legislation prior to the respective deadlines The RoHS (Restriction of use of certain Hazardous Substances) directive will require that new equipment sold within the European Community from the 1st July 2006 (apart from some exceptions that are still to be confirmed), will not contain any of the following substances in quantities above the prescribed levels in each homogenous material: 0.01% cadmium; 0.10% lead; mercury; hexavalent chromium; polybrominated biphenyls (PBB); and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The UK Government will be making regulations to transpose the RoHS directive into UK law, in the near future.
It is expected that the proposed limits will apply, and that these will (as planned) be effective from 1st July 2006.
The WEEE Directive is expected to become law in the summer of 2005 and the obligation to mark and identify equipment as per the regulations will take effect from 13th August 2005.
However, the obligation for "Producer Responsibility" of take-back has been delayed until January 2006 at the earliest.
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