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1. Q: What is the criteria for determining whether a product falls under RoHS Directive?

A: Equipment which is ˇ§designed for use with a voltage rating not exceeding 1000V Volt for alternating current and 1500 Volt for direct currentˇ¨.

2. Q: Restricted Substance in Packing Waste

A: Waste Packaging Directive 94/62/EC The Directive covers all packaging placed on the market in the European Community and all packing waste, whether it is used or released at industrial, commercial, office, shop, service, household or any other level.

3. Q: Restricted Substances in Batteries

A: Battery Directive 91/157/EC Batteries and accumulators containing more that 0.025% Cadmium or 0.4% lead have to be labeled with their heavy metal content and disposed of separately.

4: Q: Do the WEEE and the RoHS Directives apply to batteries?

A: The RoHS Directive restricts the us of heavy metals in electrical and electronic equipment, but does not apply to batteries. The WEEE Directive applies to batteries incorporated in electrical and electronic equipment once the equipment becomes wastes. In this case, they will be collected together with the equipment on the basis of the WEEE Directive. This has consequences for producer responsibility. For batteries incorporated in electrical and electronic equipment, battery producers will only become responsible for further treatment after those batteries are removed form the collected WEEE. Therefore, the batteries which are collected together with the WEEE are included in WEEE collection target and, after removal, for the collection rate of the battery directive. Batteries which are incorporated into other products ( such as cars electrical and electronic equipment) will be collected automatically together with those other products at the moment they become waste. On the basis of Directive 2000/53/EC on End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) and the WEEE Directive, it is the producer of the car/electrical equipment who covers the costs of collection, and the collected car/electrical equipment have to be handed over to an authorized treatment facility. On the basis of the minimum treatment requirements in those Directives, the batteries are to be removed from the collected ELV appliance as a minimum treatment requirement. From then on, the battery producer is responsible for covering the costs of further treatment of the battery. The interface would be between the battery producer and the treatment facility when the battery is removed from the car/electrical equipment.

5. Are any PCM products exempt from RoHS?

Yes. PCM products, such as large-scale industrial Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) are exempt from the requirements of RoHS because they are not covered by the directives. In the case of the large-scale industrial UPSs, the exemption has been explicitly granted to all electric and electronic equipment used in large-scale industrial applications.