FRONIUS MATERIAL COMPLIANCE
GUIDELINE
Specifications for compliance with legal product requirements
Fronius Material Compliance Guideline
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CONTENTS
1 Preamble ..........................................................................................................................................4
2 Explanation of terms ......................................................................................................................5
3 Summary of the requirements of this guideline ..........................................................................7
4 Obligations for suppliers ...............................................................................................................9
4.1 Causes for a product declaration by suppliers .............................................................................. 10
5 Fronius – Prohibited substances and substances to be declared ......................................... 11
5.1 Substance regulations and bans – Necessary for all products ..................................................... 11
5.1.1 Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 REACH – Annex XIV – List of substances subject to
authorisation ................................................................................................................................. 11
5.1.2 Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 REACH – Annex XVII – List of restricted substances ................ 11
5.1.3 Directive 2011/65/EU – RoHS ....................................................................................................... 12
5.1.4 Chemicals Prohibition Ordinance (ChemVerbotsV) ...................................................................... 12
5.1.5 Regulation (EC) No. 2019/1021 on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) ..................................... 13
5.1.6 Product Safety Act 2004 (PSG) ..................................................................................................... 13
5.2 Substance regulations and bans – Necessary for products from different areas of application ... 14
5.2.1 Directive 2006/66/EC – Battery Directive ...................................................................................... 14
5.2.2 Directive 94/62/EC – Packaging Directive ..................................................................................... 14
5.2.3 Biocidal Products Regulation (EU) No. 528/2012 .......................................................................... 15
5.3 Substances subject to declaration ................................................................................................. 16
5.3.1 SVHC Candidate List ..................................................................................................................... 16
5.3.2 Conflict Minerals (CM) – Dodd-Frank Act ...................................................................................... 16
5.3.3 Critical raw materials according to Ecodesign Directive 2009/125/EC .......................................... 17
5.3.4 Proposition 65 – Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, 1986 ..................................... 17
5.4 Hazardous substances .................................................................................................................. 19
5.4.1 Safety data sheets (SDS) .............................................................................................................. 19
6 Final provisions ........................................................................................................................... 19
7 List of tables ................................................................................................................................. 20
8 Sources and assistance .............................................................................................................. 21
8.1 EUR-LEX Legal Information System ............................................................................................. 21
8.2 Additional assistance ..................................................................................................................... 22
9 Revision history ........................................................................................................................... 22
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1 PREAMBLE
Purpose
This guideline serves to comply with legal requirements and the quality requirements of our customers. In
addition, it has the purpose of ensuring materially compliant handling of substances and products in
development, production, trade and use.
Material compliance includes material-specific requirements and aspects of environmental protection, product
sustainability and social responsibility. It helps to ensure a high level of protection for human health and the
environment with the aim of sustainable and socially acceptable product development and calls for substances
of concern to be replaced by less hazardous substances or technologies.
Area of application
This Material Compliance Guideline describes the requirements of Fronius International GmbH and its affiliated
companies (hereinafter referred to as “Fronius”) with regard to all known statutory prohibited, regulated and
declarable substances in current form. It must be taken into account when Fronius is supplied by suppliers.
This guideline is part of the contractual relationship with suppliers and is therefore binding for all suppliers who
supply products to Fronius. It shall be deemed accepted by the receipt of a business relationship (purchasing
conditions, supplier agreement, framework contract, purchase order).
The requirements contained in this guideline apply worldwide, even if no delivery is made to the European
Union.
Contents
This guideline includes specifications for prohibited and declarable ingredients for all products used in Fronius
end products or placed on the market by Fronius.
The Material Compliance Guideline requires that all products and their packaging supplied to Fronius comply
with the requirements of this guideline in order to ensure that the products are placed on the market in
compliance with the regulations. This guideline is intended to provide content-related assistance to suppliers
with regard to legal requirements.
Fronius makes the Material Compliance Guideline available via its website at
https://www.fronius.com/en/about-fronius/procurement.
Legal notice
Should any legal regulations or changes to the law not be reflected in this guideline, this does not release the
supplier from the obligation to take these into account and to comply with the current, applicable legal
requirements.
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2 EXPLANATION OF TERMS
Product
In this guideline, product is understood to mean everything:
/ that is supplied to Fronius and remains in a (complex) product that is placed on the market by Fronius
/ that is supplied to Fronius as an auxiliary production material (this also includes the supplier’s operating
and auxiliary materials)
/ that is passed on to Fronius as packaging to be passed on to external customers
/ for use as equipment used within the company
Examples of products are:
/ Complete products including merchandise
/ Modules
/ Components
/ Raw materials
/ Semi-finished products
/ Mixtures
/ Substances
/ Materials
/ Packaging including conditioning such as desiccants or corrosion protection agents
/ Articles
/ Transport materials
Substance
A chemical element and its compounds in the natural state or obtained by any manufacturing process,
including any additive necessary to preserve its stability and any impurity deriving from the process used, but
excluding any solvent which may be separated without affecting the stability of the substance or changing its
composition (cf. REACH Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006, Art. 3 para. 1).
Mixture
A mixture or solution composed of two or more substances (cf. REACH Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006,
Art. 3 para. 2).
Homogeneous material
One material of uniform composition throughout or a material, consisting of a combination of materials, that
cannot be disjointed or separated into different materials by mechanical actions such as unscrewing, cutting,
crushing, grinding and abrasive processes (cf. RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU, Art. 3 para. 20).
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Article
An object which during production is given a special shape, surface or design which determines its function to
a greater degree than does its chemical composition (cf. REACH Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006,
Art. 3 para. 3).
Restricted substances
Prohibited substances must not be contained in articles, components, materials, preparations and auxiliary
and operating materials above the limit values specified in this guideline.
These substances may only be present as natural impurities, they may not be added intentionally. Impurities
with these substances shall be indicated qualitatively.
Substances subject to declaration
Substances classified as declarable are not desired in some applications and must be declared above the
specified limit values. The listed substances must be indicated for each article, component, material, substance
preparation, auxiliary or operating material. Content limits are specified for the individual substances in the
document.
CAS number
The CAS number (CAS Registration Number/CAS Registry Number, CAS = Chemical Abstracts Service) is an
international designation standard for chemical substances. There is a unique CAS number for each chemical
substance registered in the CAS database (also biosequences, alloys, polymers).
SVHC
Substances of Very High Concern are substances that are listed in the candidate list of the European
Chemicals Agency (ECHA):
http://echa.europa.eu/en/candidate-list-table
Critical raw materials
According to the EU Commission’s definition, critical raw materials are all those raw materials that fulfil two
parameters: economic relevance and the supply risk of the substance, which exists when a large share of
global production is concentrated in a few countries.
More information on critical raw materials can be found at the following link:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52020DC0474&qid=1614778196868
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3 SUMMARY OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS GUIDELINE
Abbreviation
Title
Description
REACH
Regulation (EC)
No. 1907/2006
European Chemicals Regulation
concerning the Registration,
Evaluation, Authorisation and
Restriction of Chemicals
RoHS
Directive
2011/65/EU
Directive on the restriction of the use of
certain hazardous substances in
electrical and electronic equipment
ChemVerbotsV
Austrian Chemicals Prohibition
Ordinance (“ChemikalienVerbotsverordnung“)
Ordinance on prohibitions and
restrictions on the marketing and
placing on the market of certain
substances, mixtures and products
under the Chemicals Act
POPs Regulation
Regulation (EU)
No. 2019/1021
Ordinance on persistent organic
pollutants
PSG
Austrian Product Safety Act
(“Produktsicherheitsgesetz”)
Product Safety Act implementing the
Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC and
the Low Voltage Directive 2014/35/EU
relevant here
EU Battery Directive
Directive
2006/66/EC
Directive on batteries and
accumulators and waste batteries and
accumulators
EU Packaging Directive
Directive
94/62/EC
Directive on packaging and packaging
waste
Biocidal Products
Regulation
Regulation (EU)
No. 528/2012
Regulation concerning the placing on
the market and use of biocidal products
Table 1: Applicable regulations
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