3/27/2020 ✔ RoHS Annex 3 Lead Exemptions

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Seven exemption groups have been approved for the use of lead in certain applications under EU
RoHS Annex III for a few more years, summarized and detailed below:

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Lead Category Exemption Deadlines
REACH Restricted List
July 21, 2021: All categories except for Category 8 in-vitro diagnostic medical devices, Category
WEEE Compliance 9 industrial monitoring & control instruments, Category 11 products

LMS Training Software

July 21, 2023: Category 8 in-vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDs)

Compliance Software
July 21, 2024: Category 9 industrial monitoring & control instruments; Category 11 products
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Lead Exemption Table
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Exemption Application Category Deadline

Categories 8, 9 (except for in-vitro

Lead up to 0.35% by weight in alloyed
diagnostic medical devices and
6a steel (for machining) and galvanized 21 Jul, 2021
industrial monitoring & control
steel
instruments)

Category 8 in-vitro diagnostic

21 Jul, 2023
medical devices

Category 9 industrial monitoring &

21 Jul, 2024
control; Category 11

Lead up to 0.35% by weight in alloyed

steel (for machining) and up to 0.2%
6a-1 Categories 1-7 and 10 21 Jul, 2021
lead by weight in batch hot-dip
galvanized steel

Categories 8, 9 (except for in-vitro

Lead up to 0.4% lead by weight in diagnostic medical devices and
6b 21 Jul, 2021
aluminium alloys industrial monitoring & control
instruments)

Category 8 in-vitro diagnostic

21 Jul, 2023
medical devices

Category 9 industrial monitoring &

21 Jul, 2024
control instruments; Category 11

Lead up to 0.4% lead by weight in

6b-I Categories 1-7 and 10 21 Jul, 2021
recycled scrap aluminium alloys

Lead up to 0.4% lead by weight in

6b-II Categories 1-7 and 10
aluminium alloys for machining

Lead up to 0.4% lead by weight in

6c Categories 1-7 and 10 21 Jul, 2021
copper alloys

Categories 8, 9 (except for in-vitro

diagnostic medical devices and
21 Jul, 2021
industrial monitoring & control
instruments)

Category 8 in-vitro diagnostic

21 Jul, 2023
medical devices

Category 9 industrial monitoring &

21 Jul, 2024
control instruments; Category 11

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Categories 1-7 and 10 (except for

Lead up to 85% by weight in high-
7a Exemption 24 capacitor 21 Jul, 2021
temperature solder alloys
applications)

Categories 8, 9 (except for in-vitro

diagnostic medical devices and
21 Jul, 2021
industrial monitoring & control
instruments)

Category 8 in-vitro diagnostic

21 Jul, 2023
medical devices

Category 9 industrial monitoring &

21 Jul, 2024
control instruments; Category 11

Lead in glass or ceramics (including

Categories 1-7 and 10 (except for
matrix compounds) other than for
7c-I Exemption 24 potentiometer 21 Jul, 2021
capacitor dielectrics (such as
applications)
piezoelectronic devices)
IVD Categories 8 and 9 (except for in-

devices vitro diagnostic medical devices and

industrial monitoring & control
21 Jul, 2021
instruments)
on the EU Category 8 in-vitro diagnostic
21 Jul, 2023
market medical devices

Category 9 industrial monitoring &

obelis.convertri.com 21 Jul, 2024
control instruments; Category 11

Device Lead in solders for machined through-

24 hole discoidal and planar array ceramic Categories 1-7 and 10 21 Jul, 2021
noti cation in 6 multilayer capacitors
days
Categories 8 and 9 (except for in-
The largest vitro diagnostic medical devices and
21 Jul, 2021
center for industrial monitoring & control
instruments)
consultancy in
Europe: over 30 Category 8 in-vitro diagnostic
21 Jul, 2023
years of medical devices
experience, ISO Category 9 industrial monitoring &
21 Jul, 2024
certi ed. control instruments; Category 11

Lead in cermet-based trimmer

34 Categories 1-7 and 10 21 Jul, 2021
potentiometer elements

Categories 8 and 9 (except for in-

vitro diagnostic medical devices and
OPEN 21 Jul, 2021
industrial monitoring & control
instruments)

Category 8 in-vitro diagnostic

21 Jul, 2023
medical devices

Category 9 industrial monitoring &

21 Jul, 2024
control instruments; Category 11

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