Hi Nic, NIST-John, others, IPC LF Listservers, <As regards the 10,20 year products being covered - well they already are. Many of our member companies manufacture equipment for theatres/stages productions etc that just simply don't get thrown away for 20 years and get passed form business to business and eventually end up in schools/colleges! < <My take on the record retention would be to hold on to it until such time that the product line is dead/not being serviced/manufactured anymore and then hold the documents for four years.> < <However, as Chuck pointed out there are other Directives out there that require you to hold other documents for longer. So if you've already got one document retention system in place then why not use that?> Thanks, By The Way what you wrote is a smarter approach. For recovery, reuse, recycling centers it seems like we still need some record retention master facility whose knowledge can be drawn on inorder to comply with the full intent of the EU Directives. Eventually these very old products, long after interest, will end up at these centres, which might even be brand new centres, needing records. Yours in Engineering, Dave YiEngr, MA/NY DDave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Leadfee Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Leadfree To temporarily stop/(start) delivery of Leadree for vacation breaks send: SET Leadfree NOMAIL/(MAIL) Search previous postings 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------