Electronics Weekly
This week, more trouble interpreting the scope of RoHs with regards to fixed installations. This subject will run and run...
Legislation & Skills
Industry group calls for UK WEEE centre
Industry body REPIC has called on the Government to support a national allocation centre for the collection of WEEE, saying such an arrangement is “the only workable solution”
Dr RoHS: July too early to bring Category 9
This week's question looks back to a previous answer on Category 9 exemptions...
Dr RoHS: Are sub-assemblies in scope?
This week Dr RoHS answers a question on sub-assemblies that don't contain any electronics
Dr RoHS: Vehicles and the End of Life Directive
This week a question on vehicles and the end of life vehicles (ELV) Directive
European energy law ‘more profound than RoHS’
Almost every electronics company in the UK will be affected by a the EU's Energy using Products Directive which aims to cut energy consumption
Business on the up as firms look to RoHS deadline
Manufacturers and test firms talked confidently at the Nepcon Electronics exhibition last week about business conditions in the run up to the July deadline for the RoHS lead-free Directive
RoHS rules will hit supply of non-compliant components
The great irony of the switch to lead-free components is that the exempt industries – aerospace, defense, medical and portions of telecom – are having the hardest time adjusting to the change
Recycling target agreed on draft Battery Directive
The draft Battery Directive is approaching sign-off after the European Parliament and Council agreed a recycling target for batteries not containing cadmium or lead
Dr RoHS: Monitoring and control exemptions
Exemptions are a hot topic in RoHS, and this week there's a warning!
