RoHS Certificate CE Marking

1. This Directive shall, subject to paragraph 2, apply to EEE falling within the categories set out in Annex I. 

 3. This Directive shall apply without prejudice to the requirements of Union legislation on safety and health, and on chemicals, in particular Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, as well as the requirements of specific Union waste management legislation. 

4. This Directive does not apply to: 

(a) equipment which is necessary for the protection of the essential interests of the security of Member States, including arms, munitions and war material intended for specifically military purposes; 

(b) equipment designed to be sent into space; 

(c) equipment which is specifically designed, and is to be installed, as part of another type of equipment that is excluded or does not fall within the scope of this Directive, which can fulfil its function only if it is part of that equipment, and which can be replaced only by the same specifically designed equipment; 

(d) large-scale stationary industrial tools; 

(e) large-scale fixed installations; 

(f) means of transport for persons or goods, excluding electric two-wheel vehicles which are not type-approved; 

(g) non-road mobile machinery made available exclusively for professional use; 

(h) active implantable medical devices; 

(i) photovoltaic panels intended to be used in a system that is designed, assembled and installed by professionals for permanent use at a defined location to produce energy from solar light for public, commercial, industrial and residential applications; 

(j) equipment specifically designed solely for the purposes of research and development only made available on a business-to-business basis ; 

(k) pipe organs.

For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply: 

(1) ‘electrical and electronic equipment’ or ‘EEE’ means equipment which is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly and equipment for the generation, transfer and measurement of such currents and fields and designed for use with a voltage rating not exceeding 1 000 volts for alternating current and 1 500 volts for direct current;

(2) for the purposes of point 1, ‘dependent ’ means, with regard to EEE, needing electric currents or electromagnetic fields to fulfil at least one intended function; 

(3) ‘large-scale stationary industrial tools’ means a large-scale assembly of machines, equipment, and/or components, functioning together for a specific application, permanently installed and de-installed by professionals at a given place, and used and maintained by professionals in an industrial manufacturing facility or research and development facility; 

(4) ‘large-scale fixed installation’ means a large-scale combination of several types of apparatus and, where applicable, other devices, which are assembled and installed by professionals, intended to be used permanently in a pre-defined and dedicated location, and de-installed by professionals; 

(5) ‘cables’ means all cables with a rated voltage of less than 250 volts that serve as a connection or an extension to connect EEE to the electrical outlet or to connect two or more EEE to each other;

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Categories of EEE covered by this Directive 

1. Large household appliances. 

2. Small household appliances. 

3. IT and telecommunications equipment. 

4. Consumer equipment. 

5. Lighting equipment. 

6. Electrical and electronic tools. 

7. Toys, leisure and sports equipment. 

8. Medical devices. 

9. Monitoring and control instruments including industrial monitoring and control instruments. 

10. Automatic dispensers. 

11. Other EEE not covered by any of the categories above.

Restricted substances referred to in Article 4(1) and maximum concentration values tolerated by weight in homogeneous materials 

Lead (0,1 %) 

Mercury (0,1 %) 

Cadmium (0,01 %)

Hexavalent chromium (0,1 %) 

Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) (0,1 %) 

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) (0,1 %)