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News Release from: RFI Global Services
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 September 2005
Website helps companies comply with
directives
RFI Global Services has announced the launch of a website dedicated to delivering online support to those involved in complying with forthcoming environmental directives.
RFI Global Services has announced the launch of a website (www.rohs-weee.uk.com) dedicated to delivering online support to those involved in complying with forthcoming environmental directives Few months remain before the Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) Directive comes into force in 2006
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The WEEE Directive makes manufacturers liable for the collection and recycling of their products at the end of their useful lives.
The deadline for compliance in the UK is June 2006.
Close on its heels, with a deadline of December 2006, is the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive that severely limits the amounts of six potentially dangerous substances within products, and to follow that is the Energy Using Products (EuP) Directive that will require producers to reduce the environmental impact throughout the life cycle of their products.
Manufacturers, resellers, distributors and importers large and small within Europe, and international companies accessing European markets, will have to meet these requirements.
As they become law, the WEEE and RoHS Directives will have a major impact on the design, manufacture and sale of electronic equipment within the EU.
RFI now offers a range of tutorials and implementation guides that provide introductory and advanced information on how to comply with the RoHS, WEEE and EuP Directives.
As easy-to-understand learning tools, the online tutorials include voice-overs that run alongside the presentations to provide the maximum amount of information in an easy-to-digest format.
These tutorials are arranged in such a way that they address the needs of all, ranging from basic introductions to advanced in-depth studies of the requirements of the WEEE and RoHS Directives.
Similar tutorials covering the EuP Directive will be available soon.
Implementation guides explaining how the directives work are also available for the WEEE and RoHS Directives.
A guide will also be available for the EuP Directive.
As deadlines approach many of the EU Member Countries have yet to define their individual compliance rules for the WEEE Directive.
Mindful of this, RFI commits to provide updates as the latest information becomes available.
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