| Name of Legislation (click on link to learn more about Bureau Veritas solutions) |
Overview of Legislation |
| 2002/95/EC - The Restriction of the use Of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS) Directive |
The RoHS Directive requires the substitution of various heavy metals (lead, mecury, cadmium, and hexavalent chromium) and brominated flame retardants (polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE)) in new electrical and electronic equipment put on the market from 1 July 2006. |
| 2005/32/EC - Eco-design Requirements of Energy-using Products (EuP) Directive |
The EuP Directive covers equipment such as electrical and electronic devices or heating equipment and provides coherent EU-wide rules for eco-design and ensure that disparities among national regulations do not become obstacles to intra-EU trade. |
| The New EU Chemicals Legislation – REACH |
The EU regulatory framework for chemicals, called REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of CHemicals), ensures enterprises that manufacture or import more than one tonne of a chemical substance per year are required to register it in a central database. The aims of the proposed new Regulation are to improve the protection of human health and the environment while maintaining the competitiveness and enhancing the innovative capability of the EU chemicals industry. REACH would furthermore give greater responsibility to industry to manage the risks from chemicals and to provide safety information on the substances. This information would be passed down the chain of production. |
| 2002/96/EC - The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive |
The WEEE Directive is designed to tackle the fast increasing waste stream of electrical and electronic equipment and complements European Union measures on landfill and incineration of waste. Increased recycling of electrical and electronic equipment will limit the total quantity of waste going to final disposal. Producers will be responsible for taking back and recycling electrical and electronic equipment. This will provide incentives to design electrical and electronic equipment in an environmentally more efficient way, which takes waste management aspects fully into account. Consumers will be able to return their equipment free of charge. In order to prevent the generation of hazardous waste. |
| 73/23/EEC - Low Voltage Directive (LVD) |
The Low Voltage Directive (LVD) lays down the requirements covering all health and safety risks of electrical equipment operating within certain voltage ranges. Consumer goods that are not covered by the LVD are dealt by the General Product Safety Directive (GPSD) 2001/95/EC. |
| 89/336/EEC - EMC Directive |
The EMC Directive lays down requirements in order to preventing electrical and electronic equipment from generating or being affected by electromagnetic disturbances. |
| 1999/5/EC - Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (R&TTE) Directive |
The R&TTE Directive encompasses all products using the radio frequency spectrum (e.g. car door openers, mobile communications equipment like cellular telephones, CB radio, broadcast transmitters, etc.) and all equipment attached to public telecommunications networks (e.g. ADSL modems, telephones, telephone switches). the Directive lays down the requirements for EMC, Radio Frequency and Health & Safety (including Specific Absopriton Rate). |
| 94/9/EC - Equipment Intended for Use in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres (ATEX) Directive |
The ATEX Directive provides the technical requirements to be applied to equipment intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres. The Directive is named after the French "ATmosphere EXplosible" and it has been mandatory from 1st July 2003. |
| 98/37/EC - Machinery Directive |
The Machinery Directive provides the regulatory basis for the harmonisation of the essential health and safety requirements for machinery at European Union level. Essentially performing a dual function, the Directive not only promotes the free movement of machinery within the Single Market, but also guarantees a high level of protection to EU workers and citizens. |
| 89/686/EEC - Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Directive |
The PPE Direcvtive defines legal obligations ensuring that PPE on the European market gives the highest level of protection against hazards. As this is a "New Approach" Directive, manufacturers or their authorised representative in the European Union can comply with the technical requirements either directly, or by means of European Harmonised Standards, the latter providing a presumption of conformity to the essential health and safety requirements. |
| 95/16/EC - Lifts Directive |
the Lifts Directive has the double aim of permitting the free circulation of lifts within the internal EU market and ensuring a high level of safety for lift users and maintenance staff. While the provisions of the Lifts Directive 95/16/EC are mainly addressed to lift installers and components manufacturers, they also have important implications for the owners and users of lifts. |
| 93/42/EEC - Medical Devices Directive (MDD) |
The MDD covers EMC & safety essential requirements for Medical Devices |
| 90/385/EEC - Active Implantable Medical Device Directive (AIMDD) |
The AIMDD covers EMC & safety essential requirements for Active Implantable Medical Devices |
| Name of Legislation (click on link to learn more about Bureau Veritas solutions) |
Overview of Legislation |
| FCC Supplier Requirements |
FCC stands for Federal Communications Commission. It is an agency of the U.S. Federal Government structured under Chapter I Telecommunication 47 Code of Federal Regulations (47 CFR). It is responsible for the management of the radio spectrum in the US. The FCC protects against “radio and broadcast pollution”, both by enforcing standards of broadcast decency, and by regulating electromagnetic noise sources. |
| California RoHS |
Beginning in 2007, a California law will ban the sale of some electronic devices that contain certain hazardous substances. The Electronic Waste Recycling Act (EWRA), which was signed into law in September of 2003, requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) to adopt regulations to prohibit covered electronic devices, as defined, ” from being “sold or offered for sale” in California if they are prohibited from sale in the European Union (EU) because they contain certain heavy metals. |
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