RoHS recast short delay

Gary Nevison, Premier Farnell.

ENGLAND: At the Environmental Council meeting on 20 December the Council did not approve the RoHS recast text voted through by the European Parliament on 24 November due to translation problems.

The Council will therefore officially adopt the text early in 2011 at one of the first meetings under the new EU presidency.

Hungary and Poland, who joined the EU in 2004, will assume the presidency during 2011 with Hungary taking the first half of the year.

So, it is unlikely that the recast will be published in the Official Journal (OJ) of the EU in March / April as originally expected, and it is difficult to say whether Hungary will push as hard as the previous Belgium presidency on the recast, but the delay should not be too long.

The recast will enter into force some 18 months after publication in the OJ.