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Engineering industry group issues position paper on "workable" RoHS
Orgalime, the European Engineering Industries Association, has issued a position paper on the recast proposal for the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) in electrical and electronic equipment. The paper, titled RoHS recast proposal: Time for compromise & for moving on, outlines five areas which the association believes need to be resolved in order to make the recast Directive workable and to provide legal certainty to companies in the future. These cover:
· The extension of the scope of the RoHS directive to all electrical and electronic equipment
· The unequal weight of criteria for granting RoHS exemptions and the significant impact of the RoHS recast on some sectors which need exemptions for specific applications
· The introduction of a RoHS substance evaluation methodology almost entirely independent from the REACH Regulation
· Achieving consistency between RoHS exemptions, REACH authorisation, and REACH exemptions from authorisation
· A better alignment of the RoHS Directive with the EU's New Legislative Framework
http://chemicalwatch.com/6039
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