Electronic Equipment (Amendment No. 3) Regulations, 2024

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 21,341, 8 ta’ Novembru, 2024

L.N. 297 of 2024

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

Restriction of Use of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and

Electronic Equipment (Amendment No. 3) Regulations, 2024

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 38 and 39 of

the Product Safety Act, the Minister responsible for consumer affairs,

on the advice of the Director General (Technical Regulations), has

made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Restriction of Use Citation, scope

of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment and

commencement.

(Amendment No. 3) Regulations, 2024 and these regulations shall be

read and construed as one with the Restriction of Use of Hazardous S.L. 427.57.

Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations,

hereinafter referred to as the "principal regulations".

(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose Commission

Delegated Directive (EU) 2024/1416 of 13 March 2024 amending

Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council

as regards an exemption for cadmium in downshifting quantum dots

directly deposited on LED semiconductor chips.

(3)

These regulations shall come into force on 1st January

2025.

Entry 39 of Schedule III to the principal regulations, in its Amends

Schedule III to

entirety, shall be substituted by the following new entries

the principal

regulations.

"39(a)

Cadmium selenide in downshifting

Expires for all

cadmium-based

semiconductor

categories on 21

nanocrystal quantum dots for use in

November 2025

display lighting applications (< 0,2 μg

Cd per mm 2 of display screen area)

39(b)

Cadmium

in

downshifting

Expires for all

semiconductor nanocrystal quantum

categories on 31

dots directly deposited on LED

December 2027.".

semiconductor chips for use in display

and projection applications (< 5μg Cd

per mm 2 of LED chip surface) with a

maximum amount per device of 1mg

In Schedule VIII to the principal regulations, immediately

after the item "- Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2024/232 of 25

October 2023 amending Directive 2011/65/EU of the European

Parliament and of the Council as regards an exemption for cadmium

and lead in plastic profiles in electrical and electronic windows and

doors containing recovered rigid polyvinyl chloride, as applicable

from 1st August 2024." there shall be added the following new item

"- Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2024/1416 of 13

March 2024 amending Directive 2011/65/EU of the European

Parliament and of the Council as regards an exemption for

cadmium in downshifting quantum dots directly deposited on

LED semiconductor chips, as applicable from 1st January

2025.".

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