April 16, 2016, the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) officially launched the European Commission Directive (EU) 2016/585, amended RoHS2.0 (2011/65 / EU) directive Annex IV Article 31: Exemption for medical devices and electron microscope recovery or for repairs, renovation of spare parts of lead, cadmium, hexavalent chromium and polybrominated diphenyl ethers requirements. The revised directive will take effect on May 6, 2016, Member States shall by 28 February 2017 release relevant laws, regulations or administrative specifications according to the instruction, and November 6, 2017 began the formal implementation. For more information see the following link:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1460975576152&uri=CELEX:32016L0585

Prior to Annex III, Annex IV of the exemption is limited to hazardous substances lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, this revision is the first time to join in the exemption list PBDE exemption, the relevant enterprises should focus on the exemption list Variety.
     For products in Annex III 1-7,10 maximum exemption period of 5 years, 8 and 9 products exempted from the maximum period of seven years, unless otherwise specified shorter period. For the exemptions listed in Annex IV, the maximum exemption period of seven years, unless otherwise specified shorter period. Exemptions should apply before the exemption expires 18 months ago proposed that an application has been updated for exemption list, the Commission shall make a decision no later than within six months before the expiry of the exemption, except under special circumstances given other deadlines. Before the decision to update the introduction of the existing exemption remains valid.