Exemption number
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Application
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Applicable product categories
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Expiry date of exemption
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6(a)
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Lead as an alloying element in steel for machining purposes and in galvanised steel containing up to 0.35 % lead by weight
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Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments
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21 July 2021
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Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices
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21 July 2023
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Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11
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21 July 2024
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6(a)-I
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Lead as an alloying element in steel for machining purposes containing up to 0.35% lead by weight and in batch hot dip galvanised steel components containing up to 0.2% lead by weight
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Categories 1-7, 10
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21 July 2021
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6(b)
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Lead as an alloying element in aluminium containing up to 0,4 % lead by weight
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Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments
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21 July 2021
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Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices
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21 July 2023
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Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11
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21 July 2024
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6(b)-I
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Lead as an alloying element in aluminium containing up to 0,4 % lead by weight, provided it stems from lead-bearing aluminium scrap recycling
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Categories 1-7, 10
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21 July 2021
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6(b)-II
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Lead as an alloying element in aluminium for machining purposes with a lead content up to 0,4 % by weight
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Categories 1-7, 10
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3 years after publication of Delegated Directive in Official Journal
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6(c)
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Copper alloy containing up to 4 % lead by weight
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Categories 1-7, 10
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21 July 2021
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Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments
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21 July 2021
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Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices
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21 July 2023
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Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11
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21 July 2024
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7(a)
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Lead in high melting temperature type solders (i.e. lead-based alloys containing 85 % by weight or more lead)
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Categories 1-7, 10 (except applications covered by point 24 of Annex III)
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21 July 2021
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Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments
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21 July 2021
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Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices
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21 July 2023
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Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11
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21 July 2024
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7(c)-I
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Electrical and electronic components containing lead in a glass or ceramic other than dielectric ceramic in capacitors, e.g. piezoelectronic devices, or in a glass or ceramic matrix compound
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Categories 1-7, 10 (except applications covered by point 24 of Annex III)
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21 July 2021
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Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments
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21 July 2021
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Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices
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21 July 2023
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Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11
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21 July 2024
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24
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Lead in solders for the soldering to machined through hole discoidal and planar array ceramic multilayer capacitors
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Categories 1-7, 10
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21 July 2021
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Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments
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21 July 2021
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Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices
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21 July 2023
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Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11
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21 July 2024
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34
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Lead in cermet-based trimmer potentiometer elements
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Categories 1-7, 10
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21 July 2021
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Categories 8 and 9 other than in vitro diagnostic medical devices and industrial monitoring and control instruments
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21 July 2021
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Category 8 in vitro diagnostic medical devices
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21 July 2023
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Category 9 industrial monitoring and control instruments, and Category 11
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21 July 2024
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