Mr. Pitarys I have attached a statement that we use to provide our customers with details regarding the new Directives. Please forgive me if it is too long and pedantic but I hope that you will be able to pick out any items of relevance to you. Alistair Murray Technical Manager Artetch Circuits Limited What is the WEEE Directive? The EU Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and the complimentary EU Directive on the Restriction of the use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS) are designed to prevent electrical and electronic equipment from becoming waste and to increase the level of recycling and recovery of WEEE. They also seek to improve the environmental performance of all operators involved in the life cycle of electrical and electronic equipment, particularly those involved at the end-of-life stages. The WEEE proposal is for a producer-responsibility Directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment. It sets criteria for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of such wastes and makes producers responsible for financing most of these activities. There are targets for recycling and recovery of materials and components from the separately collected waste. The Directive on WEEE will require the separation of plastics containing brominated flame retardants (BFRs) prior to recycling, energy recovery or disposal. In practice, in many EU countries, separation of all flame-retardant plastics will be required for WEEE. This is already a legislative requirement in Denmark. RoHS Directive From 01 July 2006, new electrical and electronic equipment put on the market shall not contain lead, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, poly-brominated biphenyls (PBB) or poly-brominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) An Annex exists with a list of exempted uses for some of these substances where substitutes are not yet available or it is not technically feasible to find substitutes. Additional Notes 1) The ROHS Directive gives producers a clear guarantee that no individual EU Member State will be able to introduce separate bans or restrictions on any other substance than those specified in the ROHS Directive. There are some 70 other brominated flame retardants that are not banned. 2) Plastics containing brominated flame retardants offer a high level of stability during the recycling process. The WEEE separation requirement will, therefore, facilitate the recycling and recovery of plastics containing brominated flame retardants for which there is a wide range of tested recycling and recovery technologies. 3) Halogen-free flame retardants in laminates have their own environmental issues (phosphorous compounds) -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Charlie Pitarys Sent: 23 February 2005 19:31 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] RoHS Cleaning Chemical Compliance Greetings! Is there a list of approved and non-approved cleaning chemicals for this specification? Are cleaning chemistries involved if at all? I found perhaps 10 compounds (mostly metals) and the rest of the spec seems pretty vauge.(re. massive Google Search) Is there a standard form to present to customers that your products are in compliance or is it just a blanket faith statement? Thanks in advance. Charlie Pitarys Director of Application Technologies 603.622.2900 x-115 --------------------------------------------------- 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 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- 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 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------