# Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/424 of 15 March 2019 laying down ecodesign requirements for servers and data storage products pursuant to Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 617/2013 (Text with EEA relevance), Division 3.3

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

From 1 March 2020, the following product information on servers and online data storage products shall be made available from the time a product model is placed on the market until at least eight years after the placing on the market of the last product of a certain product model free of charge by manufacturers, their authorised representatives and importers to third parties dealing with maintenance, repair, reuse, recycling and upgrading of servers (including brokers, spare parts repairers, spare parts providers, recyclers and third party maintenance) upon registration by the interested third party on a website provided:
(a) indicative weight range (less than 5 g, between 5 g and 25 g, above 25 g) at component level, of the following critical raw materials:
(a) Cobalt in the batteries;
(b) Neodymium in the HDDs;
(b) instructions on the disassembly operations referred to in point 1.2.1 of this Annex, including, for each necessary operation and component:
(a) the type of operation;
(b) the type and number of fastening technique(s) to be unlocked;
(c) the tool(s) required.
In the case of servers, if a product model is part of a server product family, the product information required for items a) and b) under point 3.3 shall be reported either for the product model or, alternatively, for the low-end and high-end configurations of the server product family.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/424/annex/II/division/3/division/3.3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-424/annex-II/division-3/division-3.3
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