Examples to differentiate

Scope

Comparison of products without electrical function or without function for the end user  to similar electrical and electronic equipment within the scope

Products not within the scope

Electrical and electronic equipment within the scope

solar heat collectors (no electrical function)

photovoltaic modules

purely passive toner cartridge and printer cartridges such as ‘containers/tanks’ to hold e.g. ink, toner (no electrical function) 

toner cartridges and printer cartridges with chip, sensor or LED status display for communicating with the printer or to show the filling level 

printer cartridges with integrated electrically functioning printing jets

magnetic card (without a chip, only magnetic strip, no electrical function)

chip card (with integrated circuit, e.g. chip card to control access)

purely optical fibre cable and adapters (LWL cable and adapters, no electrical function)  optical HDMI cable (with integrated electrooptical converters) 

RFIDs without function for the end user, e.g. clothing/packaging with RFIDs to protect from theft: The RFIDs are to control the goods 

RFIDs as transponders with a function for the end user (e.g. in/on clothing to track time or for protection measures, etc.) 

Exceptions

Comparison of products that fulfill an exception according to § 2 paragraph 2 ElektroG to similar electrical and electronic equipment within the scope

Products not within the scope

Electrical and electronic equipment within the scope

§ 2 paragraph 2 number 3 ElektroG:

filament bulbs, halogen lamps

LED lamps, energy saving lamps,
gas discharge lamps

§ 2 paragraph 2 numbers 5 und 6 ElektroG (large-scale stationary industrial tools or large-scale industrial fixed installations):

large wind power plants, stationary assembly cranes such as e.g. in container ship building

small wind turbines, by hand navigable mobile assembly cranes

§ 2 paragraph 2 number 7 ElektroG:

means of transport that require type approval, e.g. e-bikes, with pedalling support, even at speeds above 25 km/h (S-pedelecs up to 45 km/h) or motor independent of pedalling, E-skateboards, wheel chairs, mobility scooters, electric unibikes, tricylcles

two-wheeled electric bikes (pedelecs with pedalling support up to 25 km/h), hoverboards with 2 wheels, scooters with 2 wheels, children’s motorbikes, toy vehicles

§ 2 paragraph 2 number 8 ElektroG:

mobile machinery (b2b equipment with on-board electricity supply) such as fork-lift trucks, pallet trucks, street building machinery

lawnmower /vacuum cleaner robots b2c

§ 2 paragraph 2 number 9 ElektroG (research and development):

specially developed analytical device, designed and used within a university

commercially marketed serial analytical device for the pharmaceutical industry

§ 2 paragraph 2 number 10 ElektroG (infectious, implantable equipment):

implantable pace-maker

blood sugar measuring equipment (esp. with test strips)