Dr Paul Goodman

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Subject RoHS EU TAC membership.



Good morning Dr Goodman,



I have enquired of some trade association memberships both in Europe and the
USA regarding the members of the EU TAC advisory committee on RoHS.



My reasoning in asking the question is as follows:



1                    There are no official minutes of meetings that I or
others have been made aware of.



2                    There is no formally published list of the committee
members, their company affiliations or their background and training for the
task at hand; although we are lead to believe that they are not actually
employed full time by the EU.



Unfortunately, there has been no response to date from these enquiries of
the industry generally, and so I would normally draw the conclusion that in
fact the meetings do not have official minutes and that the committee
membership is not published.



Knowing that this is almost certainly not the case, and perhaps there are in
fact such data available, since there are indeed unaccredited "unofficial
minutes" with no committee data, I thought I would ask you, since being the
EU contracted consultant for these matters you must in fact interface with
the EU TAC for RoHS on a regular basis.



The industry should be aware of this data, in the public view, since
everything else about this initiative is indeed posted on a web site apart
from this critical piece of information.



The reasoning being  that the industry that has paid out an estimated 80 to
100 billion US dollars on lead removal from solders alone, based on the
recommendations of this committee, and the resulting (or not) legislative
amendments to the RoHS legislation.



At this level of authority, the industry deserves at the very least to
understand who is making the decisions, their qualifications to make them,
and their corporate affiliation.



This is not in the case with any of the committees supported by the industry
trying to deal with this legislation, IPC, iNEMI, and all other groups
involved in trying to make this legislation work have very visible committee
members, typically people at the top of their careers in the electronics
sector and expert in their respective fields.



If there is any reason why this should not be published, or if you are not
the correct contact in this instance, please would you let me know by return
to whom this enquiry should be addressed. If the list is freely available I
would appreciate a copy.



Kind regards,



John Burke

http://www.RoHSUSA.com <http://www.rohsusa.com/>




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