My understanding is that a product can only be "Placed on the Market"
once. It seems to me that if the product was originally put on the EU
market before the effective date of RoHS it can be re-furbished and
resold with non-compliant parts. It states this in the directive. If it
was originally sold in a non-EU market, like Australia, it cannot be
placed onto the EU market after the effective date unless it is
compliant.
The result is more useful and value added paper work to track where
returns come from.
Dan
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From: Leadfree [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of James, Chris
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 5:13 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [LF] Re-furbishment of products for new sales (Puts on the
EU Marketplace)
I believe people who lease equipment such as post franking machines are
looking at this and possibly if you have a definite closed loop then
existing non compliant equipment can continue to be recycled.
WEEE was partly to encourage reuse and it just during the transition
where you have non RoHS units coming back as WEEE that you have the
reuse problem. However the directives allow the continued field
maintenance of existing product with non compliant spares.
Regards,
Chris
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From: Leadfree [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dave Delman (MA/NY
DDave
Sent: 05 April 2005 04:21
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [LF] Re-furbishment of products for new sales (Puts on the EU
Marketplace)
Hi IPC LF Listservers,
and Hopefully someone who does re-furbishment of products to sell
as kind of new, ETN (Equivalent to New) to the EU Marketplace.
I am thinking of HP, Toshiba, and a few others who sell computers;
as well as, some other products that create this reuse market.
Some of these items can be a good monetary deal, and can certainly
be more environmentaly friendly than the alternatives of total
scrap and rebuild. Reduce Reuse Recycle was my son's web site
adventure when the Internet was young.
My readings of the EU Directives and all of OUR LF Listserve
discussions indicate that this market has to go away OR apply
and be granted a special exemption similar to the one that the
UK companies were seeking with the LTB or Life/Last Time Buy.
SO Anyone know if an exemption is in the works.
Yours in Engineering, Dave
Y i Engr, MA/NY DDave
P.S. Here are two links to our recent treads that might need to
be gobbled up "cut" and "pasted" to be read.
http://listserv.ipc.org/scripts/wa.exe?
A2=ind0503&L=leadfree&T=0&F=&S=&P=29561
http://listserv.ipc.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0504&L=leadfree&T=0&F=&S=&P
=353
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