« Lots of RoHS changes ahead? | Main | Join my discussion group »

Breaking News-new RoHS cadmium exemption

The European Commission has published a decision to exempt the use of cadmium in certain colour-converting LED screens from a ban under the RoHS Directive.

Decission 2010/122/EU of 25 February finds that, technically, no suitable alternative has been found.

This will be exemption 39 for use in solid state illumination or display systems and will run until 1 July 2014.

The applicant for the exemption is 3M and it is for a new type of LED that is not yet on the market other than in sample quantities.

Potential future applications will include lighting (white LEDs), projectors (beamers) including small handheld devices and possibly even mobile phones.

The exemption has been published in the Official Journal and is therefore in effect now.

 

Directive Decoder

 

With thanks to Dr. Paul Goodman, Cobham Technical Services

 

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/118858

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

About

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on March 3, 2010 8:12 AM.

The previous post in this blog was Lots of RoHS changes ahead?.

The next post in this blog is Join my discussion group.

Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.

Go back to ElectronicsWeekly.com