Hi,



As many of you will know the Oko institute (the RoHS technical consultants
for the EU) refused to even consider my recent exemptions requests, even
though they were backed up by a plethora of scientific data including the
EPA report on lead in solders lifecycle. They would consider none of this
since, as they put it:



"the review of basic assumptions behind the ban of lead in the RoHS
Directive would be an evaluation of the RoHS Directive and the political
decision behind it, which is beyond the consultants tasks and possibilities
within this consultation process. The consultants therefore refrained from
commenting on these studies and findings and did not take into account this
stakeholder document during the evaluation of the respective exemption
requests"



I am glad that THEY used the word assumptions.....I felt duty bound to
comment on this direction, here is the link to the press article in PCB 007
entitled "The EU RoHS Consultants - Who ARE these Guys?":



http://tinyurl.com/fp3gc



Kind regards,



John Burke



For the record the full Oko Institut report can be found here:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/pdf/rohs_report.pdf








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