RoHS Directive & REACH Regulation

 

The RoHS Directive (current version: 2011/65/EU and its amendment, (EU) 2015/863) and the REACH Regulation (EC 1907/2006) are the two leading legislations issued by the EU Parliament and the Council, limiting the use of list of  hazardous substances in EEE and all type of products respectfully.

 

Manufacturers have to manage their supply chain and verify if any of those hazardous substances is in use in the items composing their final product and in what concentration, and take actions should such substances exist above the permitted level.

 

GilGreen will help you to cope with those continuously changing legislations and recommend on tools and practical strategies to make your product compliant at minimum cost.

 

Conflict Minerals Act

 

The Conflict Minerals Act came into force on November 2013. The initiative for this US Act was aimed to strangle the extraction and smelting of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold (3TG) in the conflict zone of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and its surrounding states by armed groups abusing women and children and funding terrorist groups worldwide.

 

The Act requires every company reporting to the SEC to annually publish Conflict Minerals Report explaining their policy and active actions taken to verify the sources of the 3TG in the items composing their products. Companies should take due diligence acts to collect such info from their suppliers and to verify its accuracy and completion.

 

GilGreen will lead you through all the steps and activities required to successfully meet the SEC expectations.

WEEE Directive

 

 

 

 

The EU WEEE Directive (current version: 2012/19/EU) first came into force in July 2006, in parallel to the RoHS Directive. According to the Directive, producers are financially responsible for collection, transportation and reuse & recycling of their products in EU.

 

Unlike the RoHS Directive, the WEEE Directive is a Framework Directive, and every EU country should transpose it into national lows and can apply minor changes to the law. This fact force manufacturers to cope with 27 slightly different EU national laws!

 

GilGreen will help you select a core solution provider and waste collecting firm to take care of all your EOL electronic products imported into all EU countries. We will also help you prepare disassembly instructions for your products and instruct you how to integrate environmental aspects into product design.

 

SCIP Reporting

 

 

Based on EU’s Waste Framework Directive (WFD; 2008/98/EC, as amended in 2018), European suppliers of articles containing any >0.1%w/w SVHC are required to report SVHC data to the SCIP (Substances of Concern In articles, as such or in complex objects (Products)) database.

 

GilGreen will help you understand the requirements of the WFD Directive and lead you through the reporting obstacle course.