The China RoHS compliance policy

The regulation is mainly valid for manufacturers, importers, and dealers of products circulated within China. The regulation started in two steps beginning on March 1, 2007. The first step included the unique declaration of the products. The second step defines the limitation of the substances and control thereof.

The requirements of the CHINA-RoHS differ from the EU-RoHS in the following subjects:

1. China- RoHS does not allow any exception for products in the so-called "Electronic Information Products" (EIP) group.

2. Products for the end customers are required to be labeled. Suppliers do not to provide the mentioned marking but shall supply to the purchaser all necessary information required.

3. The limitations of the restricted substances are not yet defined. They will be similar to the limits of the EU-RoHS but the CHINA-RoHS does not allow any exceptions as indicated in the EU-RoHS guidelines.

4. The outermost packaging materials must be marked with the respective recycling logos according to GB-18455-2001.

5. All information according to CHINA-RoHS has to be available in Chinese.

6. The CHINA-RoHS conformity has to be confirmed by a Chinese laboratory, while the EU-RoHS conformity can be assured with self-declaration.

SCHURTER indexes all CHINA-RoHS conforming products on the website based on internal SCHURTER materials information with the green or orange logo, respectively. The symbol links to this information page for detailed status information and product overview lists. Detailed material information is provided by Product Content Sheets. The packaging material of storage units is marked with the required recycling symbols.

More and more often customers want to know what materials a component is comprised of. SCHURTER has therefore adopted the Umbrella Specifications initiative of the German Electrical & Electronic Manufacturers' Association (ZVEI – Zentralverband der Deutschen Elektronikindustrie) and is making available the new Product Content Sheets.

A Product Content Sheet is being established for each product type, giving details of the materials contained in the component. It confirms that the product complies with all of the EU's current material prohibitions. To achieve this SCHURTER makes use of the official EICTA materials regulations list, which defines the legal regulations as they relate to the electronics industry.

In addition, the Product Content Sheets declare whether a component is already CHINA-RoHS resp. RoHS 2002/95/EC-compliant.

Example of a Product Content Sheet: UMT 250 PCS 

These Product Content Sheets are available for download on our website.

The packaging material is also subject of declaration requirement. The indication is according to the requirements of GB-18450-200 resp. DIN.The ECFIC Environmental Group defined on its meeting on November 13. 2006 that only the external packaging material (including primary and secondary packaging) of EIP products is required to be labelled. The fixing material, internal packaging material and filling material are not required to be labeled. The label should be placed on the external surface.