The European Commission has published seven Delegated Directives to amend Annex III to Directive 2011/65/EU on restriction of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS). These Directives shall be applied from 1 July 2019.
The amendments to Annex III of Directive 2011/65/EU are as follows:
| Exemption number | Application | Applicable product categories | Expiry date of exemption |
| 6(a) | Lead as an alloying element in steel for machining purposes and in galvanised steel containing up to 0.35 % lead by weight | Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments | 21 July 2021 |
| Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices | 21 July 2023 | ||
| Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11 | 21 July 2024 | ||
| 6(a)-I | Lead as an alloying element in steel for machining purposes containing up to 0.35% lead by weight and in batch hot dip galvanised steel components containing up to 0.2% lead by weight | Categories 1-7, 10 | 21 July 2021 |
| 6(b) | Lead as an alloying element in aluminium containing up to 0,4 % lead by weight | Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments | 21 July 2021 |
| Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices | 21 July 2023 | ||
| Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11 | 21 July 2024 | ||
| 6(b)-I | Lead as an alloying element in aluminium containing up to 0,4 % lead by weight, provided it stems from lead-bearing aluminium scrap recycling | Categories 1-7, 10 | 21 July 2021 |
| 6(b)-II | Lead as an alloying element in aluminium for machining purposes with a lead content up to 0,4 % by weight | Categories 1-7, 10 | 3 years after publication of Delegated Directive in Official Journal |
| 6(c) | Copper alloy containing up to 4 % lead by weight | Categories 1-7, 10 | 21 July 2021 |
| Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments | 21 July 2021 | ||
| Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices | 21 July 2023 | ||
| Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11 | 21 July 2024 | ||
| 7(a) | Lead in high melting temperature type solders (i.e. lead-based alloys containing 85 % by weight or more lead) | Categories 1-7, 10 (except applications covered by point 24 of Annex III) | 21 July 2021 |
| Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments | 21 July 2021 | ||
| Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices | 21 July 2023 | ||
| Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11 | 21 July 2024 | ||
| 7(c)-I | Electrical and electronic components containing lead in a glass or ceramic other than dielectric ceramic in capacitors, e.g. piezoelectronic devices, or in a glass or ceramic matrix compound | Categories 1-7, 10 (except applications covered by point 24 of Annex III) | 21 July 2021 |
| Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments | 21 July 2021 | ||
| Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices | 21 July 2023 | ||
| Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11 | 21 July 2024 | ||
| 24 | Lead in solders for the soldering to machined through hole discoidal and planar array ceramic multilayer capacitors | Categories 1-7, 10 | 21 July 2021 |
| Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments | 21 July 2021 | ||
| Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices | 21 July 2023 | ||
| Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11 | 21 July 2024 | ||
| 34 | Lead in cermet-based trimmer potentiometer elements | Categories 1-7, 10 | 21 July 2021 |
| Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments | 21 July 2021 | ||
| Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices | 21 July 2023 | ||
| Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11 | 21 July 2024 |
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