[Amps] Amps and ROHS

[Steve Thompson]

Ian White GM3SEK wrote:

> The "lead-free" regulations will only apply to new production that is 
> placed on the market AFTER the cutoff date. That term "placed  on the 
> market" has a very specific legal meaning - roughly speaking, it only 
> applies to commercial product lines.
> 
> For example, if a company has a product line that is continuing past the 
> cutoff date, all production that will be sold to an end user in the 
> European Union after the cutoff date must comply.
> 
> Imports of non-compliant products from outside the EU are also covered. 
> However, the whole world is changing over to "unleaded" construction 
> over the next few years, so my guess is that they won't be chasing 
> individual private imports until after it doesn't matter.
> 
> The regulation specifically does not apply to future re-sales of 
> second-hand or vintage products, wherever they come from, because those 
> had already been placed on the market BEFORE the cutoff date.

Isn't the regulation is specific about being 'placed on the market' 
**within the EU**? My advice is that anything placed on the market 
outside the EU doesn't have exemption regardless of age.
> 
> It also does not apply to future private sales of individual pieces of 
> home-made equipment, because that doesn't count as being "placed on the 
> market" as a product line. (However, if someone was making repeat sales 
> of the same product, that would eventually appear on the radar.)
> 
> I am not sure how the regulations apply to special one-off or short-run 
> products of the kind that Steve's company makes... 

It applies with full force to every prototype and one-off. My carefully 
nurtured 'lifetime buy' obsolete components become trash. I'm close to 
giving up.

Steve