Royal Philips Electronics introduces an environmental program milestone. Philips has acted on the EU legislation on Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) in 2005, where 80 percent of its CRT monitors were fully RoHS compliant at the end of 2004. The first CRT - the 107T6 - was introduced in November 2004, 18 months ahead of the planned EU directive. The RoHS directive will come into effect per 1 July 2006 and will ban lead, cadmium, mercury, chromium 6+ and two brominated flame-retardants from electronic products. Source: AME Info