NWML - First Year of Enforcement (Directive Decoder)

NWML - First Year of Enforcement

The National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML) has reported on its RoHS enforcement activities between January 2006 and September 2007.

They set out with a goal to deliver a supportive, modern body that helped industry to meet the objectives of the RoHS Directive.

Their aim was to assist business through education, promotion and direct engagement with the Producers of electrical and electronic equipment and other interested bodies.

Highlights of the reporting period include:
• An enquiry service that has logged over 4000 individual enquiries
• An informative web-site that received over 9 million hits in the first year
• Provided speakers for over 50 conferences raising awareness to around 7000 delegates
• Setting up and commissioning a screening test laboratory
• Direct investigation of individual companies resulting in the serving of up to 20 improvement plan notices, 3 EU notifications, 5 compliance notices, 1 warning letter and 1 case brought to justice.

NWML now looks to the future to build upon this success while industry faces the challenges of moving out of the transition stage of the RoHS Directive.

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Gary Nevison is Farnell's spokesperson and customer interface on legislation that affects the electronics industry, such as the RoHS and WEEE Directives. As part of this, Gary has spoken extensively at RoHS seminars throughout Europe, North America and Australia. He has recently turned his attention to the developments, and impact, of China RoHS.
With over 30 years service at Farnell, he has widespread experience in the electronic components industry, Gary is an active figure in the market place, sitting on the AFDEC (Association of Franchised Distributors of Electronic Components) Council and acting as the elected chairperson for its dedicated RoHS development team.
During 2005, Gary was also chairman of the European organisation DMASS (Distributors and Manufacturers Association of Semiconductor Specialists) and today sits on the board of Electronics Yorkshire, helping local businesses.

Directive Decoder

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