Executive summary-English

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

Euro pean Comm issio n

Exem pt ion e valu atio n m etho dolog y

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1. Executive summar y – English

Und er Fr ame work Contract no . ENV.A.2/ FRA/ 2015/ 0008, DG Envi ronm ent of the

Eur opean Com mission req uest ed a cons ortium led by Oeko-Institut has developed a

meth odology to suppor t t he e valu ation of exemptio n applications accord ing to the

cri ter ia in Ar ticl e 5( 1) of D irect ive 2011/ 65 /EU (RoHS hereina fter).

The met hodo logy dev eloped t akes int o account th e pr actice used i n pr evious

exemp tio n assessm ent s un der t he RoHS Di rective.

The meth odology also provid es elemen ts f or the com parison of q uant ified im pact s, o n

th e ba sis of life cy cle analyses, in cases w here th e justi ficat ion of an exempt ion is

argued by the app lican t relyi ng on t he t hir d Art icle 5(1 )( a) crit erion.1 This may be the

case wh ere the use of a RoHS substan ce m ay result in l ower env iro nme nta l im pac ts

stemm ing for example f rom energy e ffici ency gai ns or of th e use of recy cled

materials, in comparison to alt ern ati ves. The wo rk has b een undert aken by th e Oek o-

Insti tut and Fraunh ofer In stit ut e IZ M.

1 The crit erio n re ferr ed t o: “t he t otal neg ativ e en viro nme ntal , he alth and consu mer safe ty impa cts

caus ed by sub stit uti on a re li kely to out weig h th e t otal env iron ment al, heal th a nd co nsum er safet y

ben efit s th ereo f.”