1.Large household appliances: refrigerators, washers, stoves, air conditioners
2. Small household appliances: vacuum cleaners, hair dryers, coffee makers, irons
3. Computing & communications equipment: computers, printers, copiers, phones
4.Consumer electronics: TVs, DVD players, stereos, video cameras
5.Lighting: lamps, lighting fixtures, light bulbs
6.Power tools: drills, saws, nail guns, sprayers, lathes, trimmers, blowers
7.Toys and sports equipment: videogames, electric trains, treadmills
8.Automatic dispensers: vending machines, ATM machines

1. Large stationary industrial tools
2. Control and monitoring equipment
3. National security use and military equipment
4. Medical devices
5. Some light bulbs and some batteries
6. Spare parts for electronic equipment in the market before July 1, 2006.

The RoHS Directive effectively bans these substances from electrical and electronic products sold in Europe from July 1 2006. The maximum allowable amounts at homogeneous material level (see below for definition) are 0.1% for all except cadmium which is 0.01%. Up to these levels can be intentionally added.

Substance	Examples
Lead:	Tin-lead coatings, low temperature brazing alloys (SnPb), thermal stabilizers of PVC (lead stearate...), yellow pigments for polymers (lead chromate)…
Mercury	Mercury whetted relays
Cadmium:	Coatings (with hexavalent chromium passivation), high temperature brazing alloys (ex Ag-Cu-Zn-Cd…), thermal stabilizers of PVC (cadmium stearate...), yellow pigments for polymers (cadmium sulfide),
Hexavalent Chromium	Passivations of zinc, copper, alloys of aluminium, silver, galvanized sheet steel
Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB)	Flame retardant, cables, plastics
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE)	Flame retardant, cables, plastics, ABS
	Octa-BDE (Octabromodiphenyl ether) Polybrominated diphenol ether (PBDE) Penta-BDE (Pentabromodiphenyl ether) Pol