RoHS a major hurdle in getting new Phoenix Motherboards?

[techie]

Hi everyone,
I did a quick Babelfish on the amiga-news.de forum this morning and came across an interesting discussion about RoHS compliance and the Phoenix Motherboard. It seems there was some concern that - should more Phoenix Motherboards be produced it would not be possible to sell them to anyone in a European country affected by RoHS. At least I think that’s what they meant anyway; with babelfish you can never really know for sure  :-)

Now I’m rather ashamed to admit that the whole RoHS thing never really crossed my mind before so I’m not exactly sure how it might affect selling replacement motherboards to a small user base. Would anyone with more knowledge of RoHS care to shed more light on this subject?

[techie]

@all
Hey everyone,
I've just been going over the UK RoHS.gov website (found here) and under the Decision Tree section it says that
a Sub-assembly (I'm assuming that is the correct category atm) is NOT within the scope of RoHS.

Sub assemblies are packages of components assembled into discrete units. Some may have a discernable function, others may not. These include a range of items such as, but not exclusively:

    * Power supplies
    * Populated boards
    * Control units
    * Monitoring devices
    * Cases
    * Display panels
    * Etc

Sub assemblies are not final products and are therefore outside the scope of RoHS enforcement. However, the products that the sub assemblies form part of will usually need to comply, thus requiring the sub assemblies to be RoHS compliant.

As a sub assembly supplier you are likely to be asked for compliance data from your customers. You in turn may need information from your suppliers. The level of effort and detail you provide is a commercial decision. The product suppliers have a challenging task in ensuring RoHS compliance and they are likely to value your support.

So now I guess the question I have is, is the Phoenix Motherboard a Sub-Assembly or not? Any opinions?

btw I'm all for RoHS environmental protection but I would still like to see that everyone is legally able to buy a Phoenix board that signs up at the Revival 2 website.