Chris, I was never in any meetings involving the Commission when the WEEE Directive was being drawn up, so I cannot comment on the accuracy of you assertion below. It seems more likely to me that - if the Commission even considered distance selling at all - they took the view that at the present time the vast majority of electrical products were not sold over the net. Hence, the priority could have been to tackle the biggest chunk of WEEE first and leave distance selling to the inevitable next tranche of legislation. What do you mean by "to clean up on all the internal white and household goods"? We may have an issue here on American vs. British English, but I'd like to be sure. Richard Hughes In a message dated 02/09/2005 10:07:23 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
The EEC never considered distance/direct selling from outside the EU when they drew up the directive, probably because the root concern was to clean up on all the internal white and household goods which in the main are produced within the EU. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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
