Can RoHS directive kill the "Hardware for sale" section?

[MCes]

The RoHS directive is applied in Europe and in other states,
it aims to eliminate substances that are difficult to treat at the end of the object's life (waste recycling process).

RoHS is not related to any health hazard for people who own and use electrical/electronic objects (EEE),
but its goal is to make the materials of the objects recyclable easy and safely.

Wiki can help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Substances_Directive

References in many languages can be found here:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1584116022829&uri=CELEX:02011L0065-20200301

The RoHS directive took effect on 1 July 2006 and it forbid the sale of new EEE,
but it doesn't forbid to sale EEE placed on the market before 1 July 2006, as all Commodore products.....
[(12) ‘placing on the market’ means making available an EEE on the Union market for the first time]

It means that selling old used Commodore VIC20s, C64s, etc ... is not against RoHS law.


Ok, but what about old CHIPs and spare parts that presumably contains forbidden substances?
The answer is into the law at article 4,4,A:
(RoHS restrictions) shall not apply to cables or spare parts for the repair,
the reuse, the updating of functionalities or upgrading of capacity of the following:
(a) EEE placed on the market before 1 July 2006 (...)

It means that there are no RoHS issues for our "spare parts" ....


Ok, but what about new/old mods/cartridge/peripherals that could contains forbidden substances?
Some of them can be defined as the previous "spare parts":
[(27) ‘spare part’ means a separate part of an EEE that can replace a part of an EEE.
The EEE cannot function as intended without that part of the EEE.
The functionality of EEE is restored or is upgraded when the part is replaced by a spare part;]

but exist also the article 2,4,C:
[This Directive does not apply to(C)equipment which is specifically designed, and is to be installed,
as part of another type of equipment that is excluded or does not fall within the scope of this Directive (...)]

It means that even for this objects there are no RoHS issues ....


Short form:
all the items in the "Hardware for sale" section of Amibay comply with the RoHS directive,
because inside the RoHS directive they are defined as objects excluded from the application domain.

 

[Bryce]

Hi MCes,
you seem to be mixing some things up here. RoHS regulations have nothing to do with the SALE of any device, but the MANUFACTURING of devices and it only applies to commercial mass production. If your device/mod etc is not being mass produced ie: getting UL / CE certification and being registered as a commercial product, then RoHS has no effect. The only place a hobbiest will come into contact with changes due to RoHS is when you have PCBs produced for your project. These need to conform to RoHS, but it will have no effect on the working of your device.

Bryce.

 

[MCes]

Hi Bryce,
obviously RoHS is intended for mass production, but its exclusions to artisanal production is not clearly stated, also "artisanal" or "low quantity" or "not mass production" are comparative concept (like as "big" and "little") that could open endless discussions...

On the web there are people who love to sow "poison and fear" and an "intellectual product" of them is about the possibility of having a legal (or not legal) sale of new/old Commodore computer/spare-parts/mods/cart...

Consequently I preferred to read the RoHS directive and find that our objects are already "RoHS compliant" because the directive define this objects as not limited by him (exempted), independently by who made or sold them: there is no discussion.