What Is a RoHS Declaration?
Any manufacturer, importer, or distributor of a product to which RoHS applies is legally required to create and keep a RoHS “declaration of conformity” for that product.
A declaration should state whether one or more of your products are:
- Compliant, meaning the product does not contain any of the ten substances regulated by RoHS in excess of their permissible concentration levels;
- Compliant due to exemptions, meaning the product contains one or more of the ten substances regulated by RoHS in excess of their permissible levels – but an exemption listed in RoHS 2 applies; or
- Not compliant, meaning the product meaning the product contains one or more of the ten substances regulated by RoHS in excess of their permissible levels – and none of the exemptions listed in RoHS 2 applies.
A declaration should also be dated and signed by an individual authorized to take responsibility on behalf of the manufacturer, importer, or distributer.
Instead of a signed declaration, a manufacturer, importer or distributer can declare the contents of products by using the applicable IPC-175X standard.
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