How do I get a RoHS exemption?
The steps in the procedure are as follows: • You (or your trade association) submits exemption requests to the European Commission via the Commission’s website. • When the European Commission has collected a number of requests that it deems are worth rolling into a package of requests, it launches a public consultation on those requests. • The public consultations typically last a couple of months or so. • When the consultations are closed, a consultant is appointed to assess the merit of the various requests. • The consultant carries out a study and files a report, normally within 3 months. • The European Commission then considers the report and issues a proposal for a Decision (legislative text), for consideration by Member State experts and for comment by the European Parliament. There is no deadline for this step, but the Member State experts must be given at least 30 days’ notice before they are required to vote. • Member State experts vote on the proposed Decision. • The Decision
