Hello Richard, check <http://www.bmu.de/> www.bmu.de there is an englisch site, too. :-) As I understood so far, the law passed on march 24st 2005 but the "Länder" structure for taking back the equipment and so on has to be implemented yet. Best regards,
Michael Kern Qualitätsmanagement ************************************************************************** Huber Kältemaschinenbau GmbH Werner-von-Siemens Str. 1 77656 Offenburg ( Phone: +49 (0)781-9603-773 Fax:+49 (0)781-57211 * eMail: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] : Internet: <http://www.huber-online.com/> www.huber-online.com Original Message processed by Tobit InfoCenter Subject: Re: WEEE in Germany (02-Apr-2005 10:36) From: [email protected] To: [email protected] (and 1 other) Don, others, Thanks for the link. As I understand it, the Basic Law at the Federal level has been passed in Germany but the various Länder (local states) still have to pass their enabling legislation. Can someone from Germany confirm this please? If true, does it mean that the law could apply in some Länder before others, or is there a synchronising mechanism? >From the information I have, the WEEE Directive seems to be the biggest problem in the biggest countries (UK, Italy, France and Germany). Smaller countries, be they older members (e.g.Belgium and the Netherlands) or recent accession countries (e.g. Hungary and Slovakia) seem to have their legislative act together. I'm not sure about medium sized countries, such as Spain and Poland. Perhaps others could confirm or correct? {To clarify, by small, medium and large I do not mean geographic area, but rather weighted voting rights within the EU legal system (and correspondingly within the ESOs - European Standards Organisations).} Richard Hughes ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [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.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc To: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [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.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
