RoHS Compliance and Industry Standardization

Among the challenges for RoHS compliance reporting are the following:

1. Different interpretations of the RoHS directive.
2. No standard survey format
3. No standard reporting format.
4. Lack of standardization in material declaration forms.
5. High costs associated with supporting different reporting formats for nearly every customer.

As a result of different customer interpretations of RoHS compliance many firms are not able to provide a broad RoHS compliance statement for all products to customers. Instead, they check for RoHS compliance on an individual part number basis, in response to customer requests. Source: EETimes