[tinwhiskers] RoHS Scope Pushback! - Orgalime Press Information 1 Feb 10 - Severe industry concerns over proposals for substantial changes to the RoHS Scope
- From: "Bob Landman" <rlandman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tinwhiskers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:54:47 -0500
I got this from the leadfree IPC forum. Hopefully they will reconsider adding
to our collective misery.
Bob Landman
H&L Instruments, LLC
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From: Redgrove Mark (MRE) [mailto:Mark.Redgrove@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 February 2010 11:19
To: Redgrove Mark (MRE)
Subject: Orgalime Press Information 1 Feb 10 - Severe industry concerns over
proposals for substantial changes to the RoHS Scope, Immediate Release
Importance: High
Dear Colleagues
Please find below, and on our website
(http://www.orgalime.org/Pdf/PI_RoHS_Scope_Feb10final.pdf)
a press information expressing concerns over the RoHS recast. Please
distribute throughout you own networks of members and interested media.
_______________________________
Brussels, 1 February 2010
Severe industry concerns over proposals for substantial changes to the RoHS
Scope.
Significant changes to the scope of the Commission's RoHS recast proposal,
which fundamentally focuses on consumer goods recovered from household waste,
are being considered by the European Parliament and several Member States'
delegations in the Council without any impact assessment. The proposals under
discussion would bring in nearly all capital goods which use electrical and
electronic equipment, for example all the electrical and electronic equipment
in trains, trucks, cars, planes, power plants of all types, petrochemical and
other industrial installations, subways, elevators, material handling
equipment, etc...
European manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment consider this
proposal as particularly objectionable, in view of the EU institutions
commitment to respect 'Better Regulation'.
Commented Adrian Harris, Orgalime's Director General "It is quite clear that
capital goods operate in different environments and have considerably longer
life spans than most consumer goods. They have specific safety requirements and
are treated in a different way at the end of life. If capital goods and
therefore industrial plants are going to be regulated at the level of
substances, this should ideally be done through REACH and certainly not without
a thorough impact assessment.
How can the EU claim to be developing an industrial policy vision and hope to
attract manufacturing investors to Europe when it does not follow the basic
rules of good governance which the institutions have set themselves? The Common
Approach to Impact Assessment of 2005 clearly spells out that the three
Institutions consider it essential that the assessment of initiatives and
substantive amendments should be rigorous and comprehensive and be based on
accurate, objective and complete information. The institutions all agreed that
such a process should be transparent and foresee an appropriate consultation of
affected stakeholders. This is not happening here."
Even the conclusions of a recent partial impact assessment conducted on behalf
of the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, state that 'the introduction of
a general scope, where RoHS covers all electrical and electronic equipment may
have quite far reaching consequences and there may be the need for general
exclusions for some product groups'.
"We prefer that in the absence of objective and sufficiently qualitative
knowledge on the consequences of the proposal, the remaining shortcomings
should be ironed out of the existing scope provisions instead of introducing
new provisions which give rise to new complications and will have unknown
implications without demonstrated environmental benefit. Our team is available
to discuss these issues with the European Parliament's Rapporteur and the
Council" added Harris.
Ends
Notes for the Editor: Orgalime Position Paper
<http://www.orgalime.org/Pdf/PP%20RoHS%20Recast%20Proposal_jun09.pdf>
on RoHS recast
Mark Redgrove
Head of Communications
ORGALIME aisbl | Diamant Building | Boulevard A Reyers 80 | B1030
| Brussels | Belgium
Tel: +32 2 706 82 56 | Fax: +32 2 706 82 50 | www.orgalime.org
<http://www.orgalime.org/News/news.asp?id=275>
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