{"id":338,"date":"2014-01-21T11:19:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/?p=338"},"modified":"2014-03-21T11:25:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T15:25:39","slug":"rohs-2-technical-documentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/2014\/01\/21\/rohs-2-technical-documentation\/","title":{"rendered":"RoHS 2 Technical Documentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The technical documentation for compliance to RoHS 2 is the greatest challenge for manufacturers of products that were already RoHS compliant. We can provide a template for technical documentation and assist you to compile conformity documentation that aligns with the RoHS-2 harmonized standard.<\/p>\n<p>For RoHS 2 compliance, manufacturers must carry out conformity assessment based on internal production control procedures that are in conformance with EU Decision 768\/2008\/EC and EU Regulation 765\/2008\/EC. The RoHS 2 Directive Article 7(b) specifies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>b) manufacturers draw up the required technical documentation and carry out the internal production control procedure in line with module A of Annex II to Decision No 768\/2008\/EC or have it carried out;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Products may not be sold on the EU market unless the manufacturer has drawn up the technical documentation.<br \/>\nThe RoHS 2 Technical documentation File (TDF) must meet specific requirements<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> makes it possible to assess the products&#8217; conformity and includes an adequate analysis and assessment of the risk(s).<\/li>\n<li>    Shall specify the applicable requirements for design and manufacture of the product.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Harmonized and referenced Standards for Technical Documentation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EN 50581: Technical documentation for the assessment of electrical and electronic products with respect to the restriction of hazardous substances<\/li>\n<li>IEC\/TR62476: Guidance for evaluation of product with respect to substance-use restrictions in electrical and electronic products<\/li>\n<li>IEC 62321: Analytical Test Methods<\/li>\n<li>IEC 62474: Materials Declaration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>EN 50581 specifies that technical documentation shall include at least:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a general description of the product (product category and exemptions)<\/li>\n<li>documents for materials, parts, and\/or sub-assemblies<\/li>\n<li>information showing the relationship between the technical documents identified and the corresponding materials, parts and\/or sub-assemblies in the product;<\/li>\n<li>list of harmonized standards and\/or other technical specifications that have been used to establish the technical documents or to which such documents refer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The technical documentation for compliance to RoHS 2 is the greatest challenge for manufacturers of products that were already RoHS compliant. We can provide a template for technical documentation and assist you to compile conformity documentation that aligns with the RoHS-2 harmonized standard. For RoHS 2 compliance, manufacturers must carry out conformity assessment based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-resource"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}