S.L. 427.57 ст. 2Scope and applicability.

(1) These regulations implement the requirements of

Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the

Council of 8th June 2011 on the Restriction of the Use of certain

Hazardous Substances in Electrical Equipment (recast), as amended by Directives 2012/51/EU and 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 October 2012 amending, for the purposes of adapting to technical progress, Annex III to Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards an exemption for applications containing cadmium and an exemption for applications containing lead.

(1A) These regulations also implement the European Union legislation listed in Schedule VIII.

(2) These regulations lay down rules on the restriction of the use of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment with a view to contributing to the protection of human health and the environment, including the environmentally sound recovery and disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment and shall apply to electrical and electronic equipment falling within the categories set out in Schedule I.

(3) Deleted by Legal Notice 119 of 2019.

(4) These regulations shall apply without prejudice to the requirements of European Union legislation on safety and health, and on chemicals, in particular Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, as well as the requirements of specific European Union waste management legislation.

(5) These regulations shall not apply to:

(a) equipment which is necessary for the protection of the essential interests of the security of Member States, including arms, munitions and war material intended for specifically military purposes;

(b) equipment designed to be sent into space;

(c) equipment which is specifically designed, and is to be installed, as part of another type of equipment that is excluded or does not fall within the scope of these regulations, which can fulfil its function only if it is part of that equipment, and which can be replaced only by the same specifically designed equipment;

(d) large-scale stationary industrial tools;

(e) large-scale fixed installations;

(f) means of transport for persons or goods, excluding electric two-wheel vehicles which are not type-approved;

(g) non-road mobile machinery made available exclusively for professional use;

(h) active implantable medical devices;

(i) photovoltaic panels intended to be used in a system that is designed, assembled and installed by professionals for permanent use at a defined location to produce energy from solar light for public, commercial, industrial and residential applications;

(j) equipment specifically designed solely for the purposes of research and development only made available on a business-to-business basis;

(k) pipe organs.

2A. Deleted by Legal Notice 119 of 2019.