Executive summary

• Author: Clemm, Christan; Löw, Clara; Baron, Yifaat; Moch, Katja; Möller, Martin; Köhler, Andreas R; Gensch, Carl-Otto; Deubzer, Otmar
• Pages: 7-14

Euro pean Comm issio n

RoHS Pack 1 5

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1. Execut ive sum m ary

1.1 . Back ground of the stu dy

The key prov isions of Directiv e 2011 /65/ EU ( RoHS 2) can be found in Article 4(1 ),

requiring Member States to en sur e t hat elect rical and electr onic eq uip ment (EEE)

placed on t he market, including cables an d sp are par ts, does not cont ain the

sub stances list ed in Ann ex II (restrict ed substances) in excess of th e specifi ed

maxim um tol erated value in the homog eneous mat erial. The dir ective ann ex initially

list ed the follow ing substances: lead, m ercury , cadm ium , hex avalent chrom ium,

pol ybrominat ed biphenyls and polyb rom inat ed d iphen yl ethers.

Art icle 6 of RoHS 2 requires that the list of restr ict ed subst ances in Annex II b e

review ed periodically and st ipu lat es rules for am endin g t he list . A first review of the

ann ex was perform ed in the course of two studies between 2012 and 2014, r esultin g

in th e add iti on o f fo ur p hth alat es t o the ann ex (t he r est rict ion s en tered i nt o fo rce as of

2019) .

Under Fram ework Contr act no. ENV.A.2/ FRA/2 015/0 008 of 27/ 03/ 2015, a consor tium

led by Oeko-I nst itut was request ed by DG Environment of the Eur opean Com mission

to prepar e a stu dy to sup port the review of the list of restricted substances and to

pr ovid e te chni cal an d sci ent ific suppo rt for th e ev aluat ion of exem pti on requ ests und er

th e RoHS 2 regim e. The work was undertaken by Oek o-I nst itut together with the

Frau nhofer I nst itu te I ZM.

The wor k was request ed wit h a view to providing technical and scientific su pport for

th e follow ing task s:

Part 1: Sub stan ce review :

−Task 1: Update of th e exi stin g m etho dolog y t o identify and assess sub stances

for po ssible rest rictio n;

−Task 2: Asse ss substances wi th a vi ew to their possible fut ure re stricti on;

−Task 3: Deter min ation of t he quantit ativ e usage dat a for sub stances u sed in

EEE;

Part 2: Exempt ion eva luat ion:

−Task 4: Exe mpt ion methodol ogy

−Task 5: Exe mpt ion asse ssmen t

A h orizonta l ta sk ( task 6) was dev ote d t o the consu lta tion of stakeh olde rs

th roug hout the p roj ect.