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Effective December 19, 2011, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has added another twenty substances to the candidate list of substances of very high concern (svhc) after the committee of the member states of the European Union had taken a respective decision. The twenty substances are the following:

1.
Lead dipicrate
CAS No. 6477-64-1

2.
Lead styphnate
CAS [...]

Estonia has been the first off the mark in implementation of the new requirements of the RoHS directive 2011/65/EU into national legislation. As the RoHS (II) directive was published on July 1, 2011, member states have an 18- months time period until January 2, 2013 for the transition.
Estonia has implemented the labeling requirements for electronic [...]