Lax lawmaking leaves RoHS in chaos (25 January 2006)
Headline in Environmental Data Interactive,
picked up in Circuitnet.com, January 25, 2006
Read it-- the breakup of the ill-conceived ban on lead in solder
has begun.
Harvey Miller
--- Brian Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The following info is only personal opinion and is not claimed to be an
> appreciation of the legal situation.
> 1. As far as I'm aware, Switzerland has not promulgated a specific
> Ordnance fédérale on the matter
> 2. Switzerland has concluded quite a number of accords bilatéraux with
> the EU. I don't know whether these include RoHS
> 3. The Swiss electronics industry, which is an important economic
> sector, depends very largely on exports to the EU, so will be forced to
> comply with RoHS
> 4. It is therefore probable that there is a de facto compliance, even if
>
> there is no legal compliance within the country. The Swiss have shown
> precedence for cases where industry has complied to pressures and the
> government has therefore considered it unnecessary to promulgate
> legislation.
> 5. In any case, I would deem it unlikely that they would carbon-copy
> legislation outside an accord bilatéral, as the Swiss would require
> better proof than the EU that such measures would be of benefit to the
> environment or to H&S. For example, legislation regarding toxic
> substances is very different, and stricter, to that of the EU.
>
> Brian
>
> Liston, Leah wrote:
> > Anyone know if they're following RoHS in Switzerland?
> >
> >
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