The European Union’s Technical Adaption Committee (TAC) voted to approve six new RoHS exemptions. Three main requirements must apply for a banned substance to be exempted in an application. These include technical or scientific impracticality of the removal or substitution of the hazardous substance through a change in design; negative environmental, health, and/or consumer safety impacts caused by substitution, which outweigh benefits of hazardous substance removal; feasible substitutes currently do not exist for industrial and/or commercial scale production. Because of these requirements, the TAC voted in favor of six exemptions Related to lead and cadmium. Lead in finishes of fine pitch components — other than connectors with a pitch of 0.65 mm or less — with NiFe lead-frames, and lead in finishes of fine pitch components — other than connectors with a pitch of 0.65 mm or less — with copper lead-frames will be exempt from RoHS. More