ERA’s highly popular guide provides comprehensive guidance on all aspects of RoHS - technical, legal, compliance, processes and enforcement. This 3rd edition has been greatly expanded and revised.

The RoHS Directive provides no guidance on:
	what products are in scope of the Directive,
	compliance requirements
	penalties, market surveillance and enforcement
	technical alternatives to the restricted substances and reliability issues

ERA provides key technical assistance to the European Commission, UK DTI and industry worldwide on practical approaches to RoHS compliance. This guide uses ERA’s wide experience to provide extensive guidance on all of the above issues and including due diligence, self declaration, testing requirements and methods, technical files, compliance systems, materials declarations, audit and supply chain issues, standards and tools.

This 3rd edition updates all of these and has grown by over 20 pages to cover the following additional areas:

Scope
	Exemptions - the latest exemptions published
	Possible extension of the scope of RoHS to Categories 8 and 9 of WEEE (medical, and monitoring and control)

Legal
	EU member state legislation and interpretation - NEW section
	Interpretation of the meaning of “Put on the market” - NEW section
Compliance
	Steps to RoHS compliance and minimising analysis requirements - NEW section
	Approaches to enforcement - NEW section
	Decision tree based on supplier qualification - NEW
	Development of materials declarations, including IPC 1752
	Auditing of suppliers - NEW section
Design chain and technical
	Software tools including the new Eco-compliance Declaration (ECD) exchange form - NEW
	RoHS marking standards
	Lead-free soldering - expanded coverage including laminate issues and tin whiskers

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