What are the key provisions and deadlines under the RoHS directive?
Starting July 1, 2006, producers are no longer allowed to put on the market new electrical and electronic equipment that contains lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalent chromium (all heavy metals), polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), the latter two materials being groups of brominated flame retardants.
