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DecaBDE

Deca-BDE question - a refresher

I was asked about Deca-BDE by a US customer. Deca-BDE was given a RoHS exemption but the EC used the wrong procedure so the ECJ (courts) deleted the exemption from 1st July 2008 and no stakeholder has since requested a new exemption for it. Deca-BDE is therefore…

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DecaBDE-almost a year on

On 1 April 2008 The European Court of Justice issued a judgement ruling that from 30 June 2008 onwards DecaBDE shall be banned in all applications falling under the scope of RoHS.

The withdrawal of the RoHS exemption 9a namely “DecaBDE in polymeric applications” last year is a subject of…

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