Legislative/Environmental News

WEEE advisory body discarded
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2010
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Advisory Body (WAB) is to be closed as part of the government's cut in the number of public bodies.

Eco-Design (EuP) guide re-written by Farnell
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2010
Premier Farnell has published a re-written step-by-step guide to Eco-Design EuP Directive.

REACH revised guide V10 published by Farnell
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2010
The REACH Directive guide published by Premier Farnell has been updated to include the eight new SVHCs and can be downloaded here.

RoHS Directive Technical Guide updated
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2010
Premier Farnell has issued an update of its booklet entitled RoHS Directive Technical Guide, originally issued in May 2008.

ECHA adds eight substances to REACH Candidate List
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2010
The European Chemicals Agency has added eight chemical substances to the Candidate List SVHC for authorisation.

REACH SVHCs - latest batch released
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2010
Substances of Very High Concern – latest batch of eight substances confirmed June 2010

Brief overview of the RoHS recast . . .
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2010
Here is a very brief update on the RoHS recast as of June 2010, delivered by Gary Nevison of Premier Farnell.

RoHS-substance restrictions and their opposition
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2010
When the research data is fully evaluated, there is no evidence of harmful effects for the majority of organobromine and organochlorine compounds

MEPs call for RoHS ‘open scope’ and nanotech policing
Date Posted: 08 Jun 2010
MEPs want an ‘open scope’ approach to RoHS legislation; say some substances should undergo further assessments for safe use; and that nanomaterials require labelling.

TBBPA included in RoHS Priority Assessment List
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2010
IPC continues advocacy for rigorous scientific assessment despite EU inclusion of broad families of chemicals, such as organobromines, in Annex III of RoHS.

RoHS Exemption List - May 2010 TAC agreed
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2010
Consultants ERA Technology, trading as Cobham Technical Services has provided an update on proposed RoHS exemptions.

IPC strives for genuine benefits in EU legislation
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2010
IPC has taken exception to other proposed RoHS amendments that would ban all brominated flame retardants (BFRs) without a scientific evaluation.

IPC lobby of EU for scientific basis in Directive sees TBBPA ban dropped
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2010
Plans announced to drop amendments calling for a ban of all BFRs, including those, such as TBBPA, that have been found safe under EU risk assessment.

Restrict more hazardous substances in electronic products, urge industry chiefs
Date Posted: 20 May 2010
Producers are calling on EU legislators to ban the use of all BFRs and PVC in electronics put on the market from end of 2015.

IPC battles for ‘science and facts’ in EU legislation
Date Posted: 17 May 2010
IPC has refuted statements published in a report which contains information that is ‘misleading, incomplete, and misrepresentative of the electronics industry’.

Evaluating Evaluation Boards with an eye on RoHS
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2010
The status of development kits and evaluation boards under the RoHS Directive continues to be unclear and hotly debated within the electronics industry.

Industry's 'uncertainty over RoHS proposals'
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2010
Substantial changes proposed could bring nearly all equipment including trains, planes, power plants and elevators within the scope of RoHS.

Environmental regulation standard IPC-1752A updated
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2010
IPC has released IPC-1752A, Materials Declaration Management to help electronics manufacturing companies better manage the growing documentation required to ensure products comply with evolving environmental regulations.

Chinese Chemicals legislation – ‘China REACH’
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2010
The Chinese Government published and has adopted amended legislation on 19th January 2010 which is due to come into force on 15th October 2010.

Recycle Week to focus on WEEE
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2010
This year's WRAP Recycle Week campaign in June will focus on electrical and electronics items.