RoHS Certification

RoHS, short for Restriction of Hazardous Substances, is specific to the European Union. The law revolves revolves the handling of hazardous materials, ranging from the manufacturing to the disposal of the material. While created inside of Europe for members of the European Union, other regions around the world have utilized and created offshoots of the RoHS. This includes nations throughout Asia (China, Japan and South Korea) and versions of it inside of North America as well.

Manufacturers of hazardous material must become RoHS compliant in order to sell and distribute the product inside of the European Union, which is exactly why it is so vital for a company to obtain these credentials. The specific process set in place to assist these companies is rather straight forward though, so it should not prove difficult to follow through with the RoHS certification and RoHS compliance regulations.

9EU RoHS directive restricts the standards and testing requirements:

RoHS revised directive also called RoHS 2.0, its amendment involves many content. But its basic objectives and mechanisms but never changes, the ultimate goal is still to reduce the electrical and electronic products of certain hazardous substances. Current, RoHS Directive to amend the main elements of the draft revised second draft involved are as follows:

1 Product Range
Control product range will be expanded to all electrical and electronic equipment except in special exemptions that rely currents or electromagnetic fields to work, or to generate, transmit and measure current and electromagnetic fields, designed to use a voltage not exceeding 1000V AC or DC 1500V products.

2 banned substances
An increase of 4 in need “priority review” material used HBCDD, DEHP, DBP and BBP.