The original press release from the CECED can be found here:
http://www.ceced.org/sites/ceced.org/community/files/349/phphTMCqO/CECED_RoHS_Put_on_the_market_Press_Release.pdf
which seems to offer a better explanation of the situation.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Ellis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: [LF] Lax lawmaking leaves RoHS in chaos


> Joe
>
> I didn't see Harvey's original message: checking back, I found he had
> hijacked another thread to place it :(
>
> However, I'll comment on it by saying "ill-conceived", yes: breakup, no!
> One must realise that the EU is a steamroller that is almost impossible
> to stop and is even less of a democratic institution than the US
> Congress or Administration. Once a law has been passed, it would require
> little less than a nuclear bomb to cause it to be broken up, no matter
> how ill-conceived it may be.
>
> Don't count on it!
>
> Brian
>
> Joe Fjelstad wrote:
>> In a message dated 1/25/2006 7:25:51 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>> [log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Another link...
>>
>> _http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=11001&channel=0_
>> (http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=11001&channel=0)
>>
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