I received this email from one of my contacts. I strongly suggest a look at the environmental impact "DATA" contained in section 3 here is the link: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/environment/reports_studies/studies/draft_rep _study_rohs_directive_dec07.pdf John Burke (408) 515 4992 From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 5:25 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Study for Simplification of the RoHS and WEEE - draft final report available for comments Dear stakeholder, The draft final report of the study being carried out by Arcadis (formerly Ecolas) and related to the simplification of the RoHS and WEEE Directives is available for comments through the link http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/environment/reports_studies/index.htm. The parts which are available for your comments only concern the analysis of the impacts of the Directives. A consultation on options for revision of the RoHS Directive is currently open on DG ENVIRONMENT website. Please see the following link. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/weee/events_en.htm. You are invited to send comments to [log in to unmask] by January 31 at the latest. My best regards Dino Pinelli ******************************************** Dino Pinelli European Commission - Directorate General Enterprise and Industry Unit B1 - Sustainable Industrial Policy Address: Avenue d'Auderghem 45, BREY 07/40 B-1049 Bruxelles Tel. +32-2-29.69.698 / Fax. +32-2-299.19.25 E-mail: [log in to unmask] John Burke (408) 515 4992 --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 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 -----------------------------------------------------