Art, there appears to be three draft directives: The WEEE, to which you refer, address the proper disposal of equipment. And there is the one on heavy metals and other toxic items to which you refer. The third, the EEE Directive, addresses the environmental design of equipment. A meeting was held with stakeholders on 6 March to discuss the new draft. I heard that the revised draft removes the requirement of a new conformity symbol (it refers to the CE symbol) and deletes suppliers from the law. However, it would require suppliers to provide necessary information. Companies would have to have an internal design control or an "environmental assurance system" in place. Richard Woods
---------- From: Art Michael [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 12:24 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Richard Woods Subject: Re: 3rd draft proposed EEE Directive Hello Richard, The proposal, I believe, is well beyond the 3rd Draft Stage. It was published in the Official Journal on 19 DEC 2000 as the "Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliment and of the Council on waste electrical and electronic equipment". The citation is: 2000/C 365 E/12. I believe it is no longer available at the "free site" (Eur-Lex) since it is more than 45 days since it was published. On that same date they also issued a "proposal for a Directive of the European Parliment and of the Council on the restriction and use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment" (2000/C 365 E/13) which is probably of interest as well. Regards, Art Michael Int'l Product Safety News A.E. Michael, Editor 166 Congdon St. East P.O. Box 1561 Middletown CT 06457 U.S.A. Phone : (860) 344-1651 Fax : (860) 346-9066 Email : [email protected] Website: http://www.safetylink.com ISSN : 1040-7529 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 [email protected] wrote: > > I understand that the Commission has issued the 3rd draft of the proposed > directive on Impact on the Environment of Electrical and Electronic > Equipment (EEE), but I can't find it on their web site. Does anyone have a > copy or know where to find it? > > Richard Woods > > ------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety > Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > > Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > [email protected] > with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Michael Garretson: [email protected] > Dave Heald [email protected] > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: [email protected] > Jim Bacher: [email protected] > > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall," > > ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.rcic.com/ click on "Virtual Conference Hall,"
