Hello group, I just received an inquiry regarding compliance with a new ecological law # 477/2001 in the Czech Republic concerning packaging of goods. Apparently the law sets requirements on design and marking of packaging and preparation of a declaration and other reporting requirements. The standards are listed below; they are not ones that I am familiar with. The products we are selling are ITE (tape automation systems).
Does anyone have experience with this yet? Any idea of what the effective date is? Extract from inquiry: We are obliged to sign a declaration stating that the packaging is complying or not with the law in general and with each of the standards, describing the contents of the packaging and stating that we have all the technical documents of the packaging and we are able to show them to the control authority. We need a separate declaration for every group of packaging that would describe used material of packaging and state whether the packaging is compliant to each of the standards or not. We have been informed that the standards and declaration should be similar to the European standards. The declaration form should be the appendix B of the standard EN 13427. Standards to meet are: 1. EN 13428. EN 13427 2. EN 13429 3. EN 13430 4. EN 13431 5. EN 13432, EN 13428 6. EN 13428, EN 13695-2 7. EN 13695-1 We have the obligation of record keeping and the obligation to get back the packaging from the end customer for free. One way to cover this duty is to contract a company newly authorized by the law whom we pay for their services. To get registered and serviced we have to report the amount of sold packaging in tons sorted by the used material. The registration is necessary for customs officers. Lyle Luttrell, PE Quality/Reliability/Compliance Engineer PeAk Storage Solutions, a Division of MaxOptix 246 South Taylor Avenue Louisville, CO 80027 Phone: 303-664-8286 Fax: 303-664-8299 ------------------------------------------- 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: Ron Pickard: [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://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
