Electric and electronic equipment - RoHS
The RoHS Directive aims to reduce the risks to human health and the environment by replacing and restricting hazardous chemical substances in electric and electronic equipment. The Directive also aims to improve the prospects of cost-effective and sustainable recycling of material waste from electronic and electronic equipment.
RoHS is short for "Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment. Sometimes, the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EC is called RoHS 2.
You will find the latest consolidated version of the RoHS Directive from 2024-08-01 below. Consolidation means that the original legal act and all subsequent amendments and corrections have been brought together in a single document.
Amendments and corrections
There are no amendments or corrections that are not included in the latest consolidated text of the Directive above.
Find legal acts in EUR-lex
All legal acts are published in the Official Journal of the European Union in EUR-Lex, the online portal to EU law.
Implemented through Swedish legislation
An EU Directive must be implemented into Swedish legislation, by law, ordinance or regulations, in order for the rules to apply in Sweden. The provisions of the RoHS directive have been implemented into Swedish law by:
Relationship with other legislations (RoHS 1 and WEEE Directive)
The Directive 2011/65/EU, which is sometimes called RoHS 2, has replaced the Directive 2002/95/EC dating from 2002, and contains several amendments and extensions to products groups, exemptions and CE marks. The previous Directive, which sometimes is called RoHS 1, still applies to products released on the market before the new Directive came into force.
The previous Directive (2002/95/EC) had the same area of application as the WEEE Directive (2002/96/EC), which concerns waste in the form of or containing electric or electronic equipment. The Directive 2002/96/EC was replaced in 2011 by the current WEEE Directive (2012/19/EC). The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
External link. is the competent authority for implementing the WEEE Directive.
You will find the last consolidated Directive 2002/95/EC (RoHS 1) here:
- Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment External link.(last consolidated 2011-09-11)
Ammendment and corrections of the Directive is published in the Official Journal of the European Union in EUR-Lex, the online portal to EU law:
Directive 2002/95/EC is implemented in Swedish law by:
- The Chemical Products (Handling, Import and Export Prohibitions) Ordinance (1998:944) External link.
- Ordinance (2005:209) on producer responsibility for electrical and electronic products External link.
- The Swedish Chemical Agency's Chemical Products and Biotechnical Organisms Regulations (KIFS 2017:7) External link.
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is the competent authority for implementing the WEEE Directive in Sweden. Read more about producer responsibility for electrical equipment on the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's website External link.