As regards the 10,20 year products being covered - well they already are. Many of our member companies manufacture equipment for theatres/stages productions etc that just simply don't get thrown away for 20 years and get passed form business to business and eventually end up in schools/colleges!

My take on the record retention would be to hold on to it until such time that the product line is dead/not being serviced/manufactured anymore and then hold the documents for four years.

However, as Chuck pointed out there are other Directives out there that require you to hold other documents for longer. So if you've already got one document retention system in place then why not use that?

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-----Original Message-----
From: MA/NY DDave [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 October 2005 04:13
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [LF] EU requirement for record retention


Hi Jay, IPC LF Listservers,

I am putting this note under the subject started by Dan Anchondo.
It will be easier, at least for me, to find these notes even the notes
titled Re in the future.

I think that Chris and our buddy from NIST have thought about this a bit
more than most.

One thought stream:
Long, LONG after your product and even your company may be gone someone (an
RRR person) at a reduce/reuse/recovery center might ask for information on
your product. I don't think anyone has thought this entire topic out
completely so I would keep the records until you know officially someone
has judged upon it a few times in EU Court.

Any system of record retention has to make sense eventually to a Court.

Another idea:
Soon 10, 20 year, and longer life cycle products might be covered by RoHS
and WEEE. It seems to me that 4 years is far too short for these products.


Yours in Engineering, Dave
YiEngr, MA/NY DDave

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