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December 2, 2008

REACH SVHCs - activity by country

The first list of Substances of Very High Concern was published during October.

But which countries were active in putting substances forward for consideration?

Well the clear winners were France with four substances making it through to the final list, as well as one other that did not. Norway proposed three including one going forward unchallenged, Austria, Germany and Sweden two each, with Holland and the UK (C10-C13 chlorinated paraffin's) just one each.

 

 

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December 5, 2008

RoHS2 - Official Announcement

Here is a link to the official announcement from the European Commission on the proposed revision of the RoHS Directive, the so called RoHS2.

Here is an at a glance summary of what it will mean to your business.

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December 9, 2008

RoHS2 - executive summary

The European Commission has announced its proposals for the revised RoHS Directive, the so called RoHS2.

Here we provide an easy to follow summary of the changes.

An announcement around the exemptions review will be in the New Year.

 

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December 16, 2008

ERA & Farnell - Raising Awareness

Farnell is pleased to recommend seminars run by ERA Technology and recently presented, and partly Chaired, an excellent, well attended environmental conference hosted by them.

For twenty five years ERA has been running a regular programme of courses, which help their customers develop and maintain technical excellence.

ERA contribute to the popular Step-by-Step Guide's produced by Farnell. Whether it be RoHS, REACH or EuP there is a course planned during the first half of the year.

Click here for course details or to see all categories plus booking details view here.

 

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