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Any statement of
RoHS compliance made by Audio-Workshop.co.uk may be
based, in part or in full, on statements provided
to the Company by suppliers of components and/or
subassemblies. Audio-Workshop.co.uk may not have
undertaken independent tests to establish the
compliance of such components and/or subassemblies.
However, as our main line business is involved with
service, support and spare parts supply, the vast
majority of this falls within the RoHS exemptions,
see extracts form DTI web site below.
Because we have been firm believers in recycling
and the re-use of product for some time, we aim to
source and use compliant components where possible
without causing detrimental operation of products
under repair either by Audio-Workshop.co.uk or when
supplied as spare parts to our customers.
We are at present updating our database to include
RoHS information. Once this is complete, our order
acknowledgments and delivery notes will show the
familiar RoHS green tick for compliance and a red X
for non compliance.
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With regard to the WEEE directive,
Audio-Workshop.co.uk can arrange the take back of
like product that is suitable for recycling. There
may be a charge for this service.
Product placed on the market after 13th August
2005, will carry the "wheelie bin" logo as
specified by the Directive.
Web
Extracts:
Exemptions
16. The RoHS
Regulations do not apply: -
1 - To
spare parts for the repair of EEE placed on the
market before 1 July 2006. It should be noted
that, following discussions in the TAC, the
European Commission and Member States have
agreed that this exemption extends to parts that
expand the capacity of and/or upgrade EEE placed
on the market before that date provided the EEE
concerned is not put on the market as a new
product.
2 - To the reuse of EEE placed on the EU market
before 1 July 2006.
Spares
Spare parts are
not products within themselves but sub assemblies
supplied for repair post placing of the product on
the market.
Spare parts for repair of products placed on the
market before 1 July 2006 are exempt from the
requirements of RoHS. The EC's 'Guide to the
implementation of directives based on the New
Approach and the Global Approach' (the 'blue book')
available at http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newapproach/legislation/guide/index.htm
describes
repairs on page 16 as "without changing the
original performance, purpose or type" and
replacing a defective or worn item by a spare part,
which either is identical, or at least similar, to
the original spare part (for example modifications
may have taken place due to technical progress, or
discontinued production of the old part). Thus,
maintenance operations are basically excluded from
the scope of the directives". Therefore a product
first placed on the market before 1 July 2006 that
is subsequently modified (changing its function,
performance or type) by the use of spare parts may
be deemed a new product and need to comply.
However, in the case of the RoHS Directive, because
extending product life is considered to have a
positive environmental impact, modification of a
product to enhance its function and therefore
extend its life are excluded.
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