The European Parliament and Council Directive on the RoHS (Restrictions of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances) in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (2002/95/EC) recommend to the European countries to limit the use of the hazardous Substances such as Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Hexavalent Chromium, PBB, PDBEv in order to:
- protect human health and the environment by restricting the use of certain hazardous substances in new equipment; and
- complement the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive (2002/96/EC).
OneAccess is now actively involved with this EU initiative to protect the human health and the environment. Few months ago, a RoHS programme was launched in order to be compliant with this Directive.
- OneAccess is now specifying, at the new product design level, components which are free of the RoHS substances.
- OneAccess is actively using Lead-Free components and processes and migrating non-compliant parts to Lead-Free in support of RoHS.
- OneAccess is working with suppliers of components, assemblies, and devices to actively progress towards RoHS compliance and to make compliant parts available as needed to support our RoHS initiative.
- Suppliers will be requested to certify the RoHS compliance status of their parts and provide information as needed to confirm process compatibility and traceability.
