Materials and substances
Microsoft has created several environmental compliance specifications to inform suppliers of our restricted substance requirements and to establish documentation controls for demonstrating conformance with such requirements as follows:
Microsoft Restricted Substances for Hardware Products Specification - H00594
This document includes our restrictions for substances and chemicals that may be contained in our hardware products, packaging, or used during the manufacturing of our products.
Restricted Substances Control System for Hardware Products - H00642
This document contains the documentation requirements that suppliers must provide to demonstrate their conformance to H00594. All suppliers are required to provide full material declarations and other documentation to ensure parts and products supplied to Microsoft meet the requirements of H00594. Full material declarations allow us to respond swiftly if new concerns arise about any substance, or if the regulatory landscape expands beyond the current substance restrictions contained in H00594.
These specifications require that all parts, components, products, and packaging supplied to Microsoft meet global legal and Microsoft-required restricted substance requirements. We use an independent laboratory to complete testing for certain restricted substances that may be contained in our hardware products. We use test results to validate supplier material declarations and monitor conformance to our restricted substances specification throughout the product lifecycle. Microsoft has implemented additional measures to ensure suppliers, and materials used in Microsoft products, adhere to Microsoft standards. Supplier conformance is verified through the restricted substance control (RSC) audit program which audits supplier control system capabilities.
[1]Note: EU RoHS, by definition, does not apply to Microsoft software products, packaging, or optical media (CD-ROMs and DVDs).
EU REACH Article 33 Disclosure
Refer to the Microsoft EU REACH declaration for Microsoft EU REACH compliance documentation below, which includes the Substances of Concern in Products (SCIP) database obligations which went into effect on January 5, 2021.
UK REACH Article 33 Disclosure
The United Kingdom’s REACH Regulation entered into force on January 1, 2021, and regulates chemicals placed on the market of Great Britain. Microsoft provides the following UK REACH Article 33 Disclosure which communicates information on UK SVHCs that are contained in articles above a concentration of 0.1% by weight.
Devices safety and eco
Sustainability of our products begins with design