Dear Members, Several members have expressed their concerns in regard to the environmental-friendly use period. Please find below the Q&A for your information. An official Chinese version of the complete Q&A can be located at <http://www.mii.gov.cn/art/2006/06/05/art_722_14805.html> http://www.mii.gov.cn/art/2006/06/05/art_722_14805.html. In case your screen doesn't accept Chinese fonts, the first half part of each paragraph is in Chinese, the second half part of each paragraph is the corresponding translation. The translation is not official. FYI. Hard copies of there standards (limits, marking, test method) expect to be available tomorrow, according to the publisher. Best Regards, Grace ===========================================================
十六、问：什么是"电子信息�� 品环保使用期限"？环保使用�� 限是否等同于安全使用期限？ ��何确定某产品的环保使用期� �？环保使用期限是否要政府审批？ 16. Question : What is the "environmental-friendly use period of electronic information products"? Is environmental-friendly use period identical to the safety use period? How to determine environmental-friendly use period? Does it need to be approved by the government? 答：电子信息产品环保使用期 ��特指环境质量安全的期限，� �指电子信息产品中含有有毒�� 害物质或元素不致发生外泄从 ��对环境造成污染或对人身、� �产造成严重损害的期限。环�� 使用期限不等于安全使用期限 ��不包含因电性能安全、电磁� �全等方面因素所限定的使用�� 限。环保使用期限可以小于也 ��以大于产品的安全使用期限。 Answer: Environmental-friendly use period of electronic information products specifically refers to the environmental quality safety period. This only refers to the period that toxic and hazardous substances or elements in electronic information products do not leak to pollute the environment or harm human beings and properties. The environmental-friendly use period is not identical to the safety use period. It does not include the period limited (regulated) by electric safety, electromagnetic safety, etc. The environmental-friendly use period can be shorter or longer than the safety use period. 为了对消费者和制造商负责以 ��实现保护环境的目的，"电子 ��息产品环保使用期限"的规定 ��必要的，也是有益的。电子� �息产品的环保使用期限由制�� 商或进口商自行制定，主要考 ��到企业对自己生产的产品比� �清楚，更容易制定出产品合�� 而科学的环保使用期限。企业 ��定自己产品的安全使用期限� �，将承担的责任时间要长，�� 果制定的期限短，则失去一定 ��市场竞争力，因此，企业必� �客观、科学地制定自己产品�� 安全使用期限。对于超过环保 ��用期限的产品应该进入废弃� �节，进行回收、处理和再利�� ，否则将可能发生有害物质的 ��漏或渗透。当然，环保使用� �限是在产品正常环境下的环�� 使用期限，而非极端环境下的环保使用期限。 For the purpose of responsible for consumers and manufacturers and protect environment, it is necessary to regulate the environmental-friendly use period and it is beneficial. A manufacturer or an importer sets the environmental-friendly use period of electronic information products by itself. This is based on the consideration that enterprises know their own products and are easier to set a reasonable and scientific environmental-friendly use period. If an enterprise sets the environmental-friendly use period of its products too long, it takes longer responsibility. If an enterprise sets the environmental-friendly use period of its products too short, it loses its market competition. Hence, an enterprise must be optimistic and scientific to set the environmental-friendly use period of its products. For those products exceeding the environmental-friendly use period, they should be entering the waste cycle, recycling, process and reuse. Otherwise, the toxic and hazardous substances may leak or penetrate. Of course, environmental-friendly use period is the environmental-friendly use period under normal environment of products. It is not the environmental-friendly use period under extreme environment. 在中国，与信息产业有关的行 ��协会有几十个，几乎涵盖了� �有的电子信息产品，每个协�� 对本行业产品的平均技术有一 ��比较清晰的了解，同时又是� �表整个行业，而非某一个企�� ，因此，由行业协会制定本行 ��产品的安全使用期限的指导� �见具有一定的科学性和客观�� 。信息产业部鼓励这些行业将 ��定的安全使用期限到信息产� �部备案，主要是为了便于了�� 行业的整体情况以及实现对行业的监管。 In China, there are tens of industrial organizations related to the information industry. They almost cover all the electronic information products. Each organization has a better understanding of its products. An organization represents the whole industry, not a particular enterprise. Therefore, the advisory comments provided by the industrial organizations are scientific and optimistic. Ministry of Information Industry (MII) encourages these industrial organizations submitting the environmental-friendly use period for its industrial products. 环保使用期限不需要政府审批。 The environmental-friendly use period does not need to be approved by the government. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
