RoHS mandates that EEE products must not contain more than 0.1% weight by weight of homogenous material of any listed substance. Cadmium is an exception to this rule where the EU prohibits products from containing more than 0.01% of this substance. Homogenous material means a material that cannot be mechanically disjointed into different materials.

Exclusions
Permanent exclusions from RoHS include the following: military equipment, space equipment, equipment designed to be part of another piece of equipment falling outside the scope of RoHS, large scale industry tools, large scale fixed installations, means of transport for persons or goods, non-road mobile machinery, active implantable medical devices, photovoltaic panels , equipment for research and development only available business to business. As noted above, the European Commission adopts a very narrow interpretation of the categories of products to which these exclusions apply.
http://www.export.gov/europeanunion/weeerohs/.../index.asp
.......the exemptions seem to cover wherever their self-interest lie


Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS 2) directive
http://www.conformance.co.uk/adirectives/doku.php?id=rohs

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rohs-compliance-and-guidance


......LOL, I started to reply elesewhere, but tell QMC what you want, what you really really want.....QDX tm


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