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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2012, SCHEDULE 1.
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1. Large household appliances.U.K.
2. Small household appliances.U.K.
3. IT and telecommunications equipment.U.K.
4. Consumer equipment.U.K.
5. Lighting equipment.U.K.
6. Electrical and electronic tools.U.K.
7. Toys, leisure and sports equipment.U.K.
8. Medical devices.U.K.
9. Monitoring and control instruments including industrial monitoring and control instruments.U.K.
10. Automatic dispensers.U.K.
11. Other EEE not covered by any of the categories above.U.K.
12. Equipment which is necessary for the protection of the essential interests of the security of member States, including arms, munitions and war material intended for specifically military purposes.U.K.
13. Equipment designed to be sent into space.U.K.
14. Equipment which is specifically designed, and is to be installed, as part of another type of equipment to which these Regulations do not apply, which can fulfil its function only if it is part of that equipment, and which can be replaced only by the same specifically designed equipment.U.K.
15. Large-scale stationary industrial tools being a large-scale assembly of machines, equipment, and/or components—U.K.
(a)functioning together for a specific application;
(b)permanently installed and de-installed by professionals at a given place; and
(c)used and maintained by professionals in an industrial manufacturing facility or research and development facility.
16. Large-scale fixed installations being a large-scale combination of several types of apparatus and, where applicable, other devices, which are—U.K.
(a)assembled and installed by professionals;
(b)intended to be used permanently in a pre-defined and dedicated location; and
(c)de-installed by professionals.
17. Means of transport for persons or goods, excluding electric two-wheel vehicles which are not type-approved.U.K.
18. Non-road mobile machinery made available exclusively for professional use, being machinery, with an on-board power source, the operation of which requires either mobility or continuous or semi-continuous movement between a succession of fixed working locations while working, and which is made available exclusively for professional use.U.K.
19. Active implantable medical devices.U.K.
20. Photovoltaic panels intended to be used in a system that is designed, assembled and installed by professionals for permanent use at a defined location to produce energy from solar light for public, commercial, industrial and residential applications.U.K.
21. Equipment specifically designed solely for the purposes of research and development only made available on a business-to-business basis.U.K.
22. Regulations 3(1), 10, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 28 do not apply—U.K.
(a)to medical devices and monitoring and control instruments placed on the market before 22nd July 2014;
(b)to in vitro diagnostic medical devices placed on the market before 22nd July 2016; and
(c)to industrial monitoring and control instruments placed on the market before 22nd July 2017.
23.—(1) Regulations 3(1), 10, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 28 do not apply to cables or spare parts for the repair, the reuse, the updating of functionalities or upgrading of capacity of the following—U.K.
(a)EEE placed on the market before 1st July 2006;
(b)medical devices placed on the market before 22nd July 2014;
(c)in vitro diagnostic medical devices placed on the market before 22nd July 2016;
(d)monitoring and control instruments placed on the market before 22nd July 2014;
(e)industrial monitoring and control instruments placed on the market before 22nd July 2017;
(f)EEE which benefited from an exemption listed in the Directive or the previous Directive and which was placed on the market before that exemption expired, provided that the specific exemption concerned those cables or spare parts.
(2) In this paragraph “previous Directive” means Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment(1).
24. Regulations 3(1), 10, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 28 do not apply to reused spare parts—U.K.
(a)recovered from EEE placed on the market before 1st July 2006; and
(b)used in equipment placed on the market before 1st July 2016,
provided that reuse takes place in auditable closed-loop business-to-business return systems, and that the reuse of parts is notified to the consumer.
OJ No L 37, 13.2.03, p 19.
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