No only the EU states and some of them have a relaxation on the implementation date - you'd need to go to the Europa website to check out which and for how long but it is several of the newer states.

 

China anticipate to release their own version of RoHS by the same date if not before.

 

Australia will be adopting RoHS on a voluntary basis to start with I believe.

 

Various states in the USA will be bringing in similar legislation and some already have a list of prohibited substances.



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	Subject: [LF] Scope of WEEE and ROHS

	

	



	Hello all,

	

	I've some off-topic question about the scope of WEEE and ROHS. I don't have in mind the "technical" scope but the "regional" scope.

	

	The directive affect of course the member states of the Euopean Union (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and United Kingdom, as well as the new member states Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Cyprus).

	

	And now the question, do the directives also affect other associated states / overseas regions?

	

	For example:

	

	Anguilla (UK)

	Aruba (Netherlands)

	Bermuda (UK)

	British Virgin Islands (UK)

	Greenland (Denmark)

	Kaiman-Islands (UK)

	Réunion (France)

	

	.... and so on.

	

	The status of them are different, some of them are completely independent and self-governed (Anguilla as an "British dependency", but for example the Queen acts as the formal Head of State).

	

	Some others are not so independent, but are not part of the European Country (for example Aruba, which is not part of the Netherlands, but part of the "Kingdom of the Netherlands".

	

	And Réunion for example is in fact a part of France, it is an overseas department (départements d'outre-mer, DOM; the other DOMs are Guadeloupe,  Martinique,  French Guiana), and e.g. the EURO is there formal currency.

	

	

	For the last group of states, it is more or less clear for me, that ROHS and WEEE affect them, as they are a real part of the European State. But do the other Islands in the Carribean and Indian Ocean or elsewhere also have to implement ROHS and WEEE?

	

	

	Best Regards

	

	Gerhard Haubner

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