Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2025/2363 of 8 September 2025 amending Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards an exemption for lead in glass or ceramic components

• CELEX: Delegated Directive (EU) 2025/2363
• Articles: 5

Article 1

Annex III to Directive 2011/65/EU is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.

Article 2

1.   Member States shall adopt and publish, by 30 June 2026 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.

They shall apply those provisions from 1 July 2026.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2.   Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

Annex III to Directive 2011/65/EU is amended as follows:

(1)

points 7(c)-I and 7(c)-II are replaced by the following:

‘7(c)-I

Electrical and electronic components containing lead in a glass or ceramic other than dielectric ceramic in capacitors, e.g. piezoelectronic devices, or in a glass or ceramic matrix compound

Applies to all categories and expires on 30 June 2027.

7(c)-II

Lead in dielectric ceramic in capacitors for a rated voltage of 125 V AC or 250 V DC or higher

Applies to all categories (except applications covered by point 7(c)-I or 7(c)-IV) and expires on 31 December 2027.’

(2)

the following points 7(c)-V and 7(c)-VI are added:

‘7(c)-V

Electrical and electronic components containing lead in a glass or glass matrix compound that fulfils any of the following functions:

(1)

for protection and electrical insulation in glass beads of high-voltage diodes and glass layers for wafers;

(2)

for hermetic sealing between ceramic, metal and/or glass parts;

(3)

for bonding purposes in a process parameter window for < 500 °C combined with a viscosity of 1 013,3 dPas (‘glass-transition temperature’);

(4)

for use as a resistive material such as ink, with a resistivity range from 1 ohm/square to 100 megohm/square, excluding trimmer potentiometers;

(5)

for use in chemically modified glass surfaces for microchannel plates (MCPs), channel electron multipliers (CEMs) and resistive glass products (RGPs).

Applies to all categories and expires on 31 December 2027.

7(c)-VI

Electrical and electronic components containing lead in a ceramic that fulfils any of the following functions:

(1)

for use in piezoelectric lead zirconium titanate (PZT) ceramics;

(2)

for providing ceramics with a positive temperature coefficient (PTC).

Applies to all categories (except applications covered by points 7(c)-II, 7(c)-III and 7(c)-IV of this Annex as well as point 14 of Annex IV) and expires on 31 December 2027.’