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RoHS Self AssessmentDo you manufacture or distribute electrical or electronic equipment (EEE), subassemblies or components?
Must answer Yes.
Does the equipment you manufacture or distribute operate under 1000V AC or 1500V DC?
Must answer yes. The RoHS Directive defines Electrical and Electronic equipment (EEE) as “… equipment that is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields to work properly and equipment for the generation, transfer and measurement of such currents and fields.”
Are electrical or electronic components required to fulfill the Products primary function?
Must answer yes. For example, a musical greeting card would still perform its function as a greeting card without the musical element. The latest interpretation of the legislation would place this example outside the scope of RoHS.
Is the equipment, subassembly or component destined for the European Union?
Must answer yes. The EU consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, CzechRepublic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. The directive extends to the European Economic Area (EEA) which also includes Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
Do your products fall within the eight broad categories which form the basis of the scope of the RoHS Directive?
Must answer Yes.
· Large household appliances
· Small household appliances
· IT & telecommunications equipment
· Consumer equipment
· Lighting equipment
· Electrical & electronic tools
· Toys, leisure and sports equipment
· Automatic dispensers
· Electric light bulbs & household luminaries
While your products may not appear to fall within any of the above categories, they may still be included. Click ‘Don’t know’ for more information.
Is the equipment part of a fixed installation?
Must answer No.
A “fixed installation” may be a combination of several pieces of equipment, systems, products and/or components (parts) assembled and/or erected by a professional assembler or installer at a given place to operate together in an expected environment and to perform a specific task. For example, elements of a larger permanent system that do not have a direct function (in isolation) away from the installation may be considered excluded from the scope of the Regulations.
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