From Fern Abrams, IPC director, environmental policy As the deadline for compliance with the EU RoHS approaches, OEMS are incresingly relying on Supplier questionaires regarding materials of concern. To assist all members of the supply chain in efficiently exchanging these 'materials declarations' the EIA has been working with its members and the members of EICTA and JGPSSI to develop a uniform format and content for these questionaires. The IPC is conducting a parallel effort to develop a handbook to provide 'how to' instructions for the completion of the materials declarations. The chairman of the IPC subcommittee that is developing the handbook is servicng on the EIA/JGPSSI/EICTA material declarations drafting committee in order to assure continued cooridination between the separate but related efforts. Please review below an open invitiation from EIA for those interested in voting on the materials declaration standard. Posted on behalf of Holly Evans, Electronic Industries Alliance ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- Dear Colleagues: The Electronics Industries Alliance (EIA), the Japanese Green Procurement Supply Standardization Initiative (JGPSSI) and the European Information, Communications and ConsumerElectronics Industry Technology Association (EICTA) have developed a draft Joint Material Declaration Guide. Please see http://www.eia.org/resources/2003-09-19.10.pdf for the current version of the Guide. This Guide is intended to standardize material content disclosures for products and components used in the global electronics industry. The standardization of such disclosures will facilitate information communication throughout the global electronics supply chain and also promote industry compliance with international chemical restrictions such as the European Union's Restriction on Hazardous Substances Directive (which bans the industry's use of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium and two brominated flame retardants by 2006). EIA, EICTA, and JGPSSI have developed a drafting group that will consider comments on the current version of the draft and work to develop a document that will be submitted to interested members of the industry for their vote. This meeting will take place the week of May 10th. EIA, EICTA, and JGPSSI are seeking additional representatives who are interested in participating on the voting group, which will vote on the draft that will emerge from the May meeting. There is no cost for participation on this voting group. The deadline for signing up to participate in the voting group is May 14, 2004. Voting on the new version of the Guide will likely take place in June 2004. Please contact Neal McDonald, Senior Project Coordinator, at [log in to unmask] or 703-907-7579. Please provide Neal with your complete contact information. If more than one representative from a company would like to participate, please indicate which representative will cast the primary company vote. Please contact me if you need any additional information. Regards Holly Evans Director, Business Development & Environmental Issues Electronic Industries Alliance 2500 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703-907-7576 Fax: 703-907-7501 e-mail: [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 -----------------------------------------------------