June 2007

New Chinese Environmental Legislation Now in Effect 

Lattice Pb-free devices are fully compliant with RoHS standards.

Lattice is committed to the various industry efforts to eliminate the use of hazardous substances, offering nearly 2,000 Pb-free device options today. These Pb-free devices are fully RoHS compliant, meeting the European and new Chinese environmental directives.
 
China's new environmental legislation called "Measures for the Administration of the Control of Pollution by Electronic Information Product" took effect on March 1, 2007. This new directive is similar to the European Union's Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment, and restricts the use of hazardous substances (Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Hexavalent Chromium, Polybrominated Biphenyls and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers). We will refer to this new legislation as "China RoHS" in this article.
 
There are no end-product exemptions to this new requirement and any end-system sold in China starting March 1, 2007 must have one of the two following labels:

• China RoHS logo -- None of the homogenous material (HM) in any parts within the end system exceeds the maximum concentration value (MCV) for any of the six restricted substances.
• Environmental Friendly Use Period (EFUP) logo -- The lowest EFUP of those HM that exceeds the MCV.

In order for a system vendor to properly evaluate the EFUP for their system, they must first know the EFUP for all of the component parts of their system. Consequently, system vendors will be requesting a Material Content Declaration Sheet from their suppliers. This Material Content Declaration Sheet must be in the Chinese language.

Lattice will comply to the China RoHS directives and make available for download the Material Content Declaration Sheets for Lattice devices on the Lattice website. On the site, you can search for China RoHS information by part number.