EAEU: Planned changes to the RoHS regulation -

On October 25, 2021, a draft amendment to the EAEU TR 037/2016 “On Restricting the Use of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Radio Electronics Products” was posted on the official website of the EAEU . Public discussion of the project is scheduled for the period from November 19, 2021 to January 21, 2022.

The purpose of the amendments is to clarify and specify certain provisions of the regulation in terms of expanding its scope with respect to measuring instruments, chemical current sources and, in general, an open scope, indicating exceptions. The new version of the regulation will update the requirements for the controlled nomenclature of hazardous substances and the restriction of their content in electrical and radio electronics products: 10 instead of 6. Also an important addition will be the inclusion of requirements for the disposal of products that have lost their consumer properties due to physical wear and tear or obsolescence, prepared on the basis of the EU Directive 2012/19/EU (WEEE 2).

The list of Annex No. 2 to the regulation will be supplemented with 4 new normalized indicators of hazardous substances: Diethylhexyl phthalate. Butylbenzyl phthalate. Dibutyl phthalate. Diisobutyl phthalate.

A large number of new terms enshrined in the draft amendments to TR EAEU 037/2016 refer specifically to the disposal of electrical and radio electronics products. It is planned to add the following concepts to the regulation: “waste of electrical and radio electronics products (WEE)”, “marking with the symbol of separate waste collection”, “best available technologies” (concerns collection, storage, transportation, processing, disposal, neutralization, placement, disposal of WEE), ‘ECER recycling’, ‘Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)’, ‘ECER’s handling’, ‘Separate Waste Collection Symbol’, and ‘Authorized State Authority for the Treatment of ECER’.