Is it true that medical devices and monitoring & control instruments may be included in RoHS soon?
Yes. Categories 8 and 9, as defined in Annex 1A and 1B of the WEEE Directive, are currently excluded from the RoHS Directive by virtue of Article 2, paragraph 1 of the RoHS Directive. But Article 6 of the RoHS Directive provides for the European Commission to propose inclusion by 2005. For various reasons, the Commission has not yet proposed inclusion of Categories 8 and 9. However, a study has been carried out for the Commission by an independent consultant Dr. Paul Goodman of ERA Technology) into what the feasibility and desirability of an inclusion might be. The ERA report was published in July 2006, and will be followed by a public consultation on its results. The Commission will then subject its ideas on revision to an impact assessment, and then its proposals will be published and will go through the normal EU legislative procedure. This process will take several years, so it is unlikely that any inclusion would enter into force before 2010 at the very earliest.
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