Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations, 2010

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 18,570, 26 ta’ Marzu, 2010 B 1879

Taqsima B

L. N. 190 of 2010

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

Restriction of Use of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and

Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations, 2010

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 38 to 40 of the

Product Safety Act, the Minister of Finance, the Economy and

Investment, on the advice of the Malta Standards Authority, has made

the following regulations:-

(1)

The title of these regulations is the Restriction of Citation and

Use of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment scope.

(Amendment) Regulations, 2010 and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Restriction of Use of Hazardous Substances in

Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations, hereinafter referred S.L.427.57

to as “the principal regulations.”

(2) These regulations implement the requirements of the

following Commission Decisions

(a)

DECISION 2009/428/EC of 4 June 2009

amending, for the purposes of adapting to technical progress,

the Annex to Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament

and of the Council as regards the exemption for an application

of lead as impurity in RIG Faraday rotators used for fibre optic

communication systems;

(b)

DECISION 2009/443/EC of 10 June 2009

amending, for the purposes of adapting to technical progress,

the Annex to Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament

and of the Council as regards exemptions for applications of

lead, cadmium and mercury.

In Schedule I to the principal regulations

Amends

Schedule I to

the principal

(a)

for item 22 thereof, there shall be substituted the

regulations.

following

Item No.

Application

Lead as impurity in RIG (rare earth iron garnet) Faraday rotators

used for fibre optic communications systems until 31 December

2009.”; and

(b)

immediately after item 32 thereof, there shall be

added the following

Application

Lead in solders for the soldering of thin copper wires of 100 m

diameter and less in power transformers.

34. Lead in cermet-based trimmer potentiometer elements.

35. Cadmium in photoresistors for optocouplers applied in profes-

sional audio equipment until 31 December 2009.

36. Mercury used as cathode sputtering inhibitor in DC plasma dis-

plays with a content up to 30mg per display until 1 July 2010.

37. Lead in plating layer high voltage diodes on the basis of a zinc

borate glass body.

38. Cadmium and cadmium oxide in thick films pastes used on alu-

minium bonded beryllium oxide.”.

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