The RoHS deadline will not be pushed back, and RoHS will come into force this weekend, said the U.K. government. This quashes any last hopes companies may have had that there would be a delay similar to that applied to the WEEE deadline or, some years ago, the EMC directive. In response to a written question from Lord Stoddart of Swindon, Lord Sainsbury, Parliamentary under-secretary of state at the DTI said: “Being a single market directive, the U.K. could not delay the implementation of the restriction of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment directive without serious threat to the functioning of the free movement of goods across the European Union.” More - Source: reed-electronics.com