ERA’s highly popular guide provides comprehensive guidance on all aspects of RoHS - technical, legal, compliance, processes and enforcement. The 4 th edition has been greatly expanded and revised and now covers RoHS legislation world-wide including China.

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 4th Edition updates most of the areas covered in the previous edition and in particular covers the following new material:

Worldwide developments
	Detailed coverage of the development of RoHS-like requirements in China and Japan plus the US and South Korea - NEW section
Scope
	Exemptions - a comprehensive list of all exemptions including the latest exemptions published and those approved (but not yet published) plus all exemptions rejected and those still pending a decision
	How to apply for an exemption and exemption request checklist - NEW section
	Component obsolescence and life time buy contracts - NEW section
	Possible extension of the scope of RoHS to Categories 8 and 9 of WEEE (medical, and monitoring and control) - outcome of study now completed by ERA for the EC - NEW section
	The status of deca-BDE and nona-BDE flame retardants in plastics
	Grey area products - luminaires, evaluation boards, cables, household appliances, consumer electronics power supplies including UPS, battery chargers, large-scale stationary tools, equipment installed in control panels, fixed installations
Legal
	Put on the market and the status of own use and refurbished equipment
	EU member state legislation and interpretation
	Moves to harmonise interpretation of the meaning of “Put on the market”
	Non compliance penalties - NEW section
Compliance
	Review of the new RoHS Enforcement Network Guidance
	Directory of RoHS Enforcement Bodies across Europe - NEW section
	An expanded consideration of analysis standards, screening and quantitative methods including practical examples (e.g. Alochrome 1200/1000)
	Inclusion of latest UK RoHS guidance on compliance
	Developments on Materials Declarations
	Auditing of suppliers
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