21. COMPATIBILITY WITH RoHS AND WEEE DIRECTIVES
European Directives
The European Union has approved new Directives with the aim of reducing the potentially
hazardous substances in order to reduce risks to health and the environment, as well as
guaranteeing the safe disposal of electrical and electronic appliances through re-use, recycling and
energetic recovery of the waste.
RoHS Directive
The 2002/95/EC European Directive dated 27.01.2003 (noted as the RoHS Directive –
“
Restriction of Hazardous Substances
”), starting from 01.07.2006, limits the use of the
substances successively listed, used in electric and electronic appliances, which are considered
dangerous to human health.
Substances subject to the provisions:
• Lead
• Mercury
• Hexavalent chromium
• Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB)
• Polybrominated diphenyl ether
(PBDE)
• Cadmium
WEEE Directive
The 2002/96/EC European Directive dated 27.01.2003 (known as the WEEE “Waste Electrical
and Electronic Equipment” Directive) uses measures and strategies for the disposal of waste
deriving from electric and electronic appliances.
The directive applies the concept of the manufacturer’s extended responsibility: the manufacturers
must pay for collection, storage, transport, recovery, recycling and correct disposal of their
appliances once they have reached the end of the lives.
It is important to note to note that these directives are not applied to products marketed before 1
July 2006. This means that all products available in the warehouse before that date are not subject
to the regulation and can be marketed without consequences.
The directive is applied to all products where the symbol shown below appears in the technical
data label.
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