Legislation & Skills

Government's Envirowise programme to step up its activities

Lack of direction from Europe is confusing Japanese firms

NEMI recommends unique part numbers for lead-free materials, components and boards to distinguish them from tin-lead versions

The introduction of tighter EMC standard for medical equipment makes sense

Technical committee should clearly define ambiguous terms in the RoHS Directive

Leaked memo says poor wording could jeopardise research

A meeting intended to clarify the impending EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive has raised more questions that it has answered. The Directive Technical Adaptation Committee (TAC) met last Wednesday to vote on missing sections of the Directive, including paragraphs which set the maximum amount of lead (Pb) allowed in consumer products. For European Commission procedural reasons, the committee ...

Last minute changes to the European lead-free directive could allow component makers to escape environmental legislation. According to one source the re-definition has been deliberately introduced following pressure from certain European component makers. It will allow them to continue to supply tin-lead-plated components providing PCBs have less than 0.1 per cent total when finished. At issue is the interpretation of ...

Of the ten accession countries joining the EU last Saturday, the most significant in electronics terms are Hungary, Poland, the...

Brunel University is taking one of its engineering classes in the theory of measure out into the busy commercial environment of the Instrumentation North 2004 trade exhibition. Given the time constraints on engineers a number of training organisations are taking their seminar programmes to the engineer rather than expect them to take time out to turn up at college. Seminars ...