Good point.




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Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:20 PM
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Subject: [TN] Lemmings to the sea

Hi all,



I've been pretty quiet on this subject and now I think it's time to have
my soapbox session. Most likely I'm going to ruffle a few feathers.



Has anyone noticed the "who, where and why" of this whole thing? It is
(IMHO) all a financial enhancement to the tin industry, researched (The
Tin Institute), controlled (The London Metal Exchange or "LME") and
benefiting the tin producing countries (also owned/operated by ???).



Political science is the furthest from my expertise, but it seems to me
by making Pb the "bad guy" and eliminating 37% of it from the
electronics industry, it's going to increase the consumption of Sn by
approximately 50%.
Without increasing the source of Sn (mines) and increasing the demand
(us) they (LME) raise the price. Money goes into someone's pocket, no?
But it's even more clever (or is it cleverer?) than that. keep the
spotlight on the lead, not the tin. PB free! Yippee!



 I'd like you to consider as well the source of the Pb. I believe we
took it from the ground in the first place, no? Don't get me wrong, I
like trees as much as the next guy and ODC's are a manmade evil, but Pb?
It was on this planet long before humans were. Perhaps this answers the
earlier post about batteries and why no one is attacking that (80% ish)
significant consumer.
It's not really about the environment, nor H&S. it's about money.
Perhaps Brian's dissertation below has identified a way out of this
nightmare if we all pull together. Comments?



(Someone please hand me my flack jacket now.)







Regards,



Ed Popielarski

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You see, wire <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26870.html>
telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New
York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And
radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive
them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.



Albert Einstein <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Albert_Einstein/>
(1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio



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Date:    Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:30:52 +0300

From:    Brian Ellis <[log in to unmask]>

Subject: Re: Lead-Free, Why?



By coincidence, I wrote an Internet Commentary for Soldering and Surface

Mount Technology Vol 17 No. 4 last week. This will be published on 30

September 2005, according to the schedule. This literally slams into the

  implementation of the RoHS and WEEE Directives, using Mr Bumble's

quote as the sub-title: "If the law supposes that ... the law is a ass -

a idiot". Unfortunately, copyright and pre-publication non-disclosure

forbid me from reproducing it here, but you may be interested to read it

when that issue of SSMT slams into your in-tray with a resounding thump.

Pity the deadline to publication interval is 3 months!



That having been said, my opposition to the RoHS Directive is based

mainly on environmental grounds. Now, as I understand it, European law

states that any Directive that has an impact on the environment or H&S

must have a risk assessment conducted. This never happened with RoHS or

WEEE because "funding was not available". I therefore contend that there

is a possibility that these Directives may be null and void. It would

require a lot of legal eagles to study whether my contention is valid,

followed by a case before the European Court of Justice to have a

judgement whether the European Commission committed an illegal act by

not having a Risk Assessment, which would overturn the Directives.

Obviously this would be a costly action, a wee bit more than my

retirement pension affords me, but somebody here (or the IPC European

Representative) may wish to make a preliminary enquiry into the

potential validity of my contention. If he thinks he has a case and

applies to the ECJ for a judgement, he may be able to obtain an

immediate suspended injunction ("effet suspensif") delaying the entry

into force of the Directives until after the scheduled judgement. A bon

entendeur, salut!



Brian

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