Last Updated:	2008-11-04
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Introduction

The Norwegian  take-back Regulations impose on municipalities, distributors, producers and importers (1) take back obligations; and (2) consumer information requirements. They also impose reporting obligations on manufacturers and importers. Manufacturers and importers may fulfil their take back obligations by participating in a joint collection scheme.

Norway has transposed the RoHS Directive by enacting Regulation No. 46 of 24 January 2005, which amended previous regulations related to restriction on the manufacture, import, export, sale and use of chemicals and other hazardous products to health and the environment (the Product Regulations).

For the purpose of this Regulation “electric and electronic equipment” means  products that are to be used with a maximum voltage of 1000 volts or 1500 volts and that belong to the following product categories:

• with goods and other household appliances
• IT and telecommunications equipments
• consumer appliances (brown goods)
• lighting equipment and light sources
• electrical and electronic instruments (excluding large-scale stationary industrial instruments)
• toys and leisure and sport equipment
• automatic point of sale and cash dispensers
  which are dependant on electrical currents or electromagnetic fields to function or are designed to generate, transmit, distribute and measure electrical currents and electromagnetic fields.
  

The Regulation defines “manufacturer” as “any person who conducts commercial imports or exports of EEE, or who under his own brand either manufactures or sells his own EEE or sells EEE manufactured by other suppliers.”

The RoHS Regulation prohibits from 1 July 2006, the manufacture, import, export and sale of EEE that contains more than 0.01% by weight of cadmium, or 0.1% by weight of lead, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls or polybrominateddiphenyl ethers.  This prohibition does not apply to (1) equipment produced or imported into the EEA territory before 1 July 2006 and (2) spare parts for such equipment, and (3) military equipment, which means equipment that is produced specifically for military purposes.

The Norwegian Pollutions Control Authority (SFT) is the authority in charge of enforcing the RoHS regulation.