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Team on 21 July 2005
Guide to WEEE Directive goes online
In a bid to help customers cope with the impending and complex legislation, Farnell has published a guide to the WEEE Directive.
In the wake of the news that the European Commission has issued a final warning calling on the eight lagging countries (UK, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Malta and Poland) to get their houses in order over the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive and related legislation, or face prosecution, Premier Farnell has launched "A guide to the WEEE Directive" The global marketer and distributor of electronic, maintenance, repair and operations and specialist products and services, produced the guide, which is now available on its website (www.premierfarnell.com) in a bid to help customers cope with the impending and complex legislation, and manage commercial impact
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Gary Nevison, Head of Product Market Strategy at Premier Farnell, explains: "Alarmingly, until now, no general guidance had been issued with regard to the WEEE Directive, despite the growing concerns over how it will be implemented".
"Unlike its sister directive, RoHS (Restriction of the use of Certain Hazardous Substances), WEEE is not a single market directive, which makes it more complicated as each EU member state may differ in how it implements the legislation - this is clearly a huge concern for all affected parties".
"Having access to industry experts, such as ERA Technology, we were able to act quickly and produce a guide to achieving and managing compliance with the WEEE Directive".
With protection of human health and the environment as the primary - and commendable - objectives, the WEEE Directive will encourage the design and production of equipment that takes into account repair, upgrade, disassembly, re-use and recycling of electrical and electronic equipment at end of life.
Continues Nevison: "The deadline for implementation was originally set for August this year but few member states met that date and so the deadlines have now moved to, for example, January 2006 for the UK, March for Germany, with France still in consultation".
"This is indicative of the significant confusion amongst many manufacturers and their customers".
"It's critical, as it is with RoHS, that industry collectively works together to get this right".
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