Korea RoHS was to have come into effect on Jan 1, 2008. Enforcement has been formally delayed until July 1, 2008 due to the late signing of supporting legislation (Presidential Decree and Enforcement Regulation).  Note: Korea RoHS has significant additional provisions compared to EU RoHS and China RoHS. However, all three regulations restricted the same six substances.

The UK RoHS enforcement authority, the National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML), has released its first year report on enforcement of the EU RoHS Directive. The NWML confirmed that a large number of compliance issues had been found and remedial actions taken with several producers. Enforcement was hampered by limitations defined in the UK RoHS regulation; the regulation will be updated in Feb 2008 to increase enforcement powers.

The second meeting of the EuP Consultation Forum is held to consider Implementing Measures for “standby and off-mode electric power consumption of electrical and electronic household and office equipment”.  The focus of these IMs is on household and office equipment and are targeted to come into effect in 2008.

China RoHS marking, documentation, and packaging requirements come into effect.

The European Commission has officially published the nine exemptions approved by the TAC (Technical Adaptation Committee) in June 2006. The exemptions were published in Commission Decisions 2006/690/EC, 2006/691/EC, and 2006/692/EC. The new exemptions include hexavalent chromium in select category 3 applications and Pb in the terminal finish of select fine pitch Integrated Circuits.