Which of course brings us to an interesting question.  If medical devices,
such as pacemakers remain exempt, then will a human corpse now be banned
from being buried as he/she is now a lead bearing disposal container?

Doug Pauls
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FYI -

Currently Category 8 Medical Devices is excluded from the RoHS directive
(in
addition, category 9 Monitoring and Control Devices is also excluded).  The
Technical Adaptation Committee (TAC) issued an invitation to tender for
technical consultants to take on the study of categories 8 & 9 and to put
forward recommendations on whether these categories should be included
within the scope of RoHS.  The bidder selection process is now completed
and
the contract for review was issued to ERA Technology out of the U.K.
http://www.era.co.uk/news/pr0516.asp

ERA is Currently seeking Category 8 Medical Device and Category 9
Monitoring
and Control producers and stakeholders to submit supporting information for
why medical and Monitoring and Control products should or should not be
added back into the directive.  For further information and/or to
participate in this, contact: Dr. Paul Goodman at ERA Technology by
telephone : +44 (0) 1372 367221 or email: [log in to unmask]

The results of ERA's review will be used by the European Commission to
prepare a proposal to be made to the European Parliament and the Council,
which will act in co-decision to amend the RoHs Directive.  ERA would be
pleased to hear from manufacturers, trade associations and NGOs (etc) who
would like to contribute to this review and in particular manufacturers of
equipment that contain restricted substances that cannot currently be
replaced by other materials or by a design change.

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