ROHS to cover all electrical and electronic equipment?

Electronics News (Nevison) - A draft proposal for the recast of the European Union's ROHS (restriction of hazardous substances) directive has been published by the European Parliament (EP).

Among the proposed changes is to include all electrical products. The approach would be to add an 11th product category to the existing 10. The scope of the new category would simply be “other electrical and electronic equipment not covered by any of the categories 1-10.” In addition, the current exclusion of large-scale stationary industrial tools (LSIT) has been deleted and so all EEE (electrical and electronic equipment) including manufacturing production line equipment would be in scope.