Environmental Compliance Requirements
If you design, manufacture, distribute or use electrical, electronic or mechanical equipment or components, both European and worldwide environmental legislation will affect you: from RoHS, WEEE and REACH to GHS/CLP, J-Moss and US State restrictions, China-RoHS and more. ERA can help you track these multiple, ever changing requirements, understand how they affect your business and provide expert technical advice on how to respond.
ERA provides technical services to support regulatory compliance both to industry and regulatory authorities. Hence we are well placed to understand the very practical, technical and pressing needs of industry on the one hand, and how to develop and implement policy to ensure effective and meaningful implementation on the other.
Services to authorities
Our clients include:
- Policy Makers – e.g. European Commission, UK government
- Enforcement Authorities
Key services we offer:
- Acquisition and analysis of market and product technical data to enable authorities to make informed decisions on policy options. Examples:
- Three eco-design directive preparatory studies (on laboratory and industrial furnaces; commercial and domestic ovens, hobs and grills)
- Review of the possible inclusion of monitoring & control instruments and medical devices in the scope of the RoHS directive
- RoHS directive impact assessment
- Technical support. Examples:
- Review of cases for exemptions under the RoHS directive
- Defining how to comply with EU RoHS and approaches to enforcement
Services to Industry
Scope of requirements covered:
- Producer responsibility and sustainability hazardous substances: substitution, obsolescence and reliability – e.g. EU RoHS including the new recast directive, REACH regulation, GHS/CLP, Ecodesign, China RoHS, ELV, batteries, J-Moss, Korea RoHS, US TSCA, California RoHS/Green Chemistry, Hong Kong Convention, material safety data sheets (MSDS/SDS), conflict minerals, chemical analysis, technical issues from substitution
- Ecodesign and sustainability – e.g. ecodesign (energy using products (EuP)/energy related products (ErP)) directive implementing measures – compliance obligation definition, product labelling
- End-of-life – e.g. WEEE, ELV and batteries directives, e-waste legislation worldwide
Our clients include:
- Brand owners
- Manufacturers of equipment, components, sub-assemblies and materials
- Subassembly and component suppliers and distributors
- Trade associations representing the above
- Law firms requiring technical support
- Environmental consultancies and service providers requiring technical support
Key services we offer:
- Training and publications:
- public or bespoke courses and workshops covering requirements relevant to you.
- Annual conference
- ERA guides on REACH and RoHS
- Technical support, e.g.
- explaining which regulatory requirements apply to you on a region by region or global basis and how to comply, minimise costs and manage risk effectively
- analysis of the gap between compliance/legal requirements and your current position
- development of guidance, internal policy documents, external communications such as compliance documentation and supply chain communications to support your business
- identifying declarable or restricted substances in your products and those of your suppliers (REACH Article 33 SVHCs, RoHS, etc.)
- development of tools to support your business (e.g. identification of substance of very high concern (SVHC) or Ecodesign regulation tracking)
- reasoned opinion on whether products are in scope of legislation – do you need to comply?
- preparation of technical case for RoHS exemption requests
- hazardous substance substitution – technical and reliability issues
- approaches to conflict mineral reduction
- material safety data sheet (MSDS/SDS) requirements
- product and chemical labelling requirements
- conformity/CE/technical documentation requirements
- audit of chemical processes
- Testing
- RoHS and REACH SVHC compliance chemical analysis of products and components for restricted and declarable substances
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