To Those Who are Interested in: China plans to promulgate a guideline document for the environment-friendly use period (EFUP). The guideline gives several methods for manufacturers to determine the EFUP. Annex A of the guideline recommends EFUP for certain types of products. I list below for your reference (based on the final draft version, the version of "Submit for Approval"):
Communication Equipment Products: Network Communication Equipment – 50 years Cellular Phones – 20 years Telephones – 20 years Computer Industry Products Workstation – 20 years Micro Computers – 10 years Notebook Computers – 10 years Printing Equipment – 10 years Scanners, Projectors – 10 years Digital Cameras – 10 years LCD Displays – 10 years Storage Equipment – 10 years Floppy Disk Drives – 10 years POS Systems – 10 years Others: Light Sources – 10 years Annex B of the guideline lists organizations participated in drawing up this guideline: EMERSON Electric Co. IPC Global Technology Management Consulting ( Shanghai ) Co., Ltd. ERICSSON (China) EPSON (China) Agilent Nortel Networks (China) Beijing Jin Zhao Electronic Materials Beijing Nokia Advanced Micro Devices (China) DELL (China) Texas Instrument Semiconductor (Shanghai) TOSHIBA (China) Phillips (China) Freescale Semiconductor (China) QUALCOMM CEGL IBM China Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. TCL Computer Technology Co., ltd. Cannon (China) Gold Peak Industries Ltd. Lucent Technologies (China) Lang Chao LTK Lenovo Beijing I downloaded a copy of this draft guideline in Chinese from a Chinese web site. There are two sources for an English copy of this draft guideline as I know of: chinarohs.com and rohswell.com. If you would like to have a copy, but have a tight budget or too busy to write a purchase requisition, you may wish to use this link, http://3.invest2win.pay.clickbank.net <http://3.invest2win.pay.clickbank.net/> , to purchase a copy at a big discount price for the EMC-PSTC members. Best regards, Grace - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald: emc-p...@daveheald.com All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________