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Earlier this year the three companies K&L, 1WEEE Services and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) decided to build a strategic alliance putting together the best of all three companies. This alliance is about to become reality right now.
K&L, 1WEEE Services and UL decided to offer a range of consultancy and compliance services for the so-called RoHS recast, [...]

Art. 126 REACH rules that penalties for non-compliance with the REACH regulation have to be determined and implemented by the member states. The understanding, however, of effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties seems to be very different in the member states.
Whilst the United Kingdom has criminal penalties for non–compliance with the registration of ~ € 5.606 [...]

Today, the RoHS Recast has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union as directive 2011/65/EU. Beginning from now, the law will come into force in 20 days. The member states have to transpose the directive into national legislation within the next 18 months.
The new directive implicates various new obligations for manufacturers, importers [...]