The concerns are there, like they always were, in the manufacturing camp. But will they be considered by the legislators?
Btw, when is RoHS 2 due and where could I find a draft?
Thanks,
Ioan Tempea, ing.
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Objet : [LF] FW: RoHS Scope - Orgalime Press Information 1 Feb 10 - Severe industry concerns over proposals for substantial changes to the RoHS Scope
For your information and comment................
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From: Redgrove Mark (MRE) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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To: Redgrove Mark (MRE)
Subject: Orgalime Press Information 1 Feb 10 - Severe industry concerns
over proposals for substantial changes to the RoHS Scope, Immediate
Release
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Dear Colleagues
Please find below, attached and on our website
(http://www.orgalime.org/Pdf/PI_RoHS_Scope_Feb10final.pdf
<http://www.orgalime.org/Pdf/PI_RoHS_Scope_Feb10final.pdf> ) a press
information expressing concerns over the RoHS recast. Please distribute
throughout you own networks of members and interested media.
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Press Information
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Brussels, 1 February 2010
Severe industry concerns over proposals for substantial changes to the
RoHS Scope.
Significant changes to the scope of the Commission's RoHS recast
proposal, which fundamentally focuses on consumer goods recovered from
household waste, are being considered by the European Parliament and
several Member States' delegations in the Council without any impact
assessment. The proposals under discussion would bring in nearly all
capital goods which use electrical and electronic equipment, for example
all the electrical and electronic equipment in trains, trucks, cars,
planes, power plants of all types, petrochemical and other industrial
installations, subways, elevators, material handling equipment, etc...
European manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment consider
this proposal as particularly objectionable, in view of the EU
institutions commitment to respect 'Better Regulation'.
Commented Adrian Harris, Orgalime's Director General "It is quite clear
that capital goods operate in different environments and have
considerably longer life spans than most consumer goods. They have
specific safety requirements and are treated in a different way at the
end of life. If capital goods and therefore industrial plants are going
to be regulated at the level of substances, this should ideally be done
through REACH and certainly not without a thorough impact assessment.
How can the EU claim to be developing an industrial policy vision and
hope to attract manufacturing investors to Europe when it does not
follow the basic rules of good governance which the institutions have
set themselves? The Common Approach to Impact Assessment of 2005 clearly
spells out that the three Institutions consider it essential that the
assessment of initiatives and substantive amendments should be rigorous
and comprehensive and be based on accurate, objective and complete
information. The institutions all agreed that such a process should be
transparent and foresee an appropriate consultation of affected
stakeholders. This is not happening here."
Even the conclusions of a recent partial impact assessment conducted on
behalf of the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, state that 'the
introduction of a general scope, where RoHS covers all electrical and
electronic equipment may have quite far reaching consequences and there
may be the need for general exclusions for some product groups'.
"We prefer that in the absence of objective and sufficiently qualitative
knowledge on the consequences of the proposal, the remaining
shortcomings should be ironed out of the existing scope provisions
instead of introducing new provisions which give rise to new
complications and will have unknown implications without demonstrated
environmental benefit. Our team is available to discuss these issues
with the European Parliament's Rapporteur and the Council" added Harris.
Ends
Notes for the Editor: Orgalime Position Paper
<http://www.orgalime.org/Pdf/PP%20RoHS%20Recast%20Proposal_jun09.pdf>
on RoHS recast
Mark Redgrove
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