Manufacturers are reminded that the phthalates restrictions (DEHP, DBP, BBP, DIBP) in EEE products start to take effect in less than one year.\u00a0 The date that a specific EEE product needs to comply depends on the product category as shown in Table 1. Phthalates have been commonly used in plastic materials, especially wire and cable sheathing, requiring many products to be redesigned to substitute the parts that are non-conformant.\u00a0 Technical documentation files also need to be updated.<\/p>\n
Placed on the Market<\/strong><\/p>\n EEE products need to comply if they are \u201cplaced on the EU market\u201d on or after the date that the restriction take effect. For imported products, \u201cplaced on the EU market\u201d, typically refers to the import date.\u00a0 If a manufacturer has a tight transition timeline for its products, it\u2019ll be important to closely manage the inventory that is not phthalate-free to ensure that it\u2019s placed on the market before the deadline.<\/p>\n Phthalate substances and thresholds<\/strong><\/p>\n The RoHS Directive (2011\/65\/EU), Annex II was amended by Delegated Directive (EU) 2015\/863 to add the four phthalate substances. The substances and maximum concentration in homogeneous material are:<\/p>\n Technical Documentation<\/strong><\/p>\n The technical documentation files (as per EN 50581 or IEC 63000) will need to be updated to reflect the additional substances \u2013 even if no redesign was required, the technical documentation still needs to be updated with supplier documentation and other documentation to demonstrate that the four phthalates aren\u2019t present.<\/p>\n ECD Compliance can provide support to manufacturers and suppliers in implementing IEC 63000 to develop technical document for a EEE product being imported into the EU or other jurisdictions with RoHS regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manufacturers are reminded that the phthalates restrictions (DEHP, DBP, BBP, DIBP) in EEE products start to take effect in less than one year.\u00a0 The date that a specific EEE product needs to comply depends on the product category as shown in Table 1. Phthalates have been commonly used in plastic materials, especially wire and cable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nl2018q3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Table 1: Date of phthalate restrictions based on product category<\/h2>\n\n
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\n\t \nProduct Category<\/th> Date of phthalate restrictions <\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n\t All EEE Categories except as specified below<\/td> July 22, 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Medical devices (Category 8)
\n(including in vitro medical devices)<\/td>July 22, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Monitoring and control instruments (including industrial monitoring and control instruments)
\n(Category 9)<\/td>July 22, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Toys that are already subject to restriction of DEHP, BBP, and DBP through entry 51 of Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907\/2006<\/td> DIBP \u00e2\u20ac\u201c July 22, 2019
\nDEHP, BBP and DBP \u00e2\u20ac\u201c n\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\t Spare parts and cables for repair, reuse or upgrade of EEE that was placed on EU market before the phthalate restriction came into effect<\/td> n\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n \n