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		<title>New Candidates for Candidate List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 1 month after the latest expansion of the ECHA Candidate list of 20 substances, another 7 substances have been put in the “Registry of intentions”. These substances are foreseen to become the next candidate substances.
http://echa.europa.eu/de/registry-of-current-svhc-intentions
For these substances, an Annex XV Dossier will be submitted to ECHA until 30 January 2012. After this submission, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kl-cc.de/2012/01/new-candidates-for-candidate-list/</link>
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		<title>Spain: Government abolished the present copyright levies system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday 30 December 2011 the Spanish Government decided to abolish the present copyright levies system, establishing and replacing it by a different one, similar to the Norwegian system, where levies are calculated into the state budget.
From 1 January 2012 manufacturers, importers, resellers and distributors of electronic equipment and devices are not longer debtors to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kl-cc.de/2012/01/spain-government-abolished-the-present-copyright-levies-system/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[K&#38;L offices are closed during Christmas Holidays, from December 24, 2011, until January 1, 2012.
We thank you for your confidence and are looking forward to working with you in 2012.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!



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		<link>http://blog.kl-cc.de/2011/12/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<title>REACH Candidate List expanded up to 73 SVHCs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kl-cc.de/2011/12/reach-candidate-list-expanded-up-to-73-svhcs/</link>
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		<title>Implementation of the new RoHS directive 2011/65/EU has begun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kl-cc.de/2011/12/implementation-of-the-new-rohs-directive-201165eu-has-begun/</link>
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		<title>RoHS – Expiration of exceptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several exemptions of the restriction of hazardous substances directive (RoHS) expire at the end of 2011.
In most cases, it concerns the concentration limits of mercury in illuminants are concerned. Up to now, those products had permission for the use of mercury as an exemption of the RoHS directive without limits. From January 1, 2012, many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kl-cc.de/2011/11/rohs-%e2%80%93-expiration-of-exceptions/</link>
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		<title>New German law for energy related products published today!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, November 24, 2011, the German transposition of the Eco-Design-Directive (2009/125/EC), the “Energieverbrauchsrelevante-Produkte-Gesetz”, (EVPG, energy–related product law) has been published in the German Federal Law Gazette and will come into force tomorrow on November 25, 2011. It will replace the current “Energiebetriebene-Produkte Gesetz”, (EBPG, energy using products act) which was the German transposition of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kl-cc.de/2011/11/new-german-law-for-energy-related-products-published-today/</link>
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		<title>CLP adaption law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CLP adaption law leads to changes in several German legislations.
Although the CLP legislation was issued as a regulation, that means, it applies directly in any member state, a few ordinances have to be implemented in national legislation of the different member states.
As in 2008, the REACH-adaption law already cut down most parts of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kl-cc.de/2011/11/clp-adaption-law/</link>
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		<title>RoHS Recast – New standards in progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new RoHS directive 2011/65 requires the CE mark and the EU declaration of conformity as a proof of compliance with the legislation. In order to being able to issue those evidences, a technical documentation (according to the EU decision 768/2008) is required.
As the new RoHS is based on a presumption of conformity if a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kl-cc.de/2011/11/rohs-recast-%e2%80%93-new-standards-in-progress/</link>
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		<title>Globally environmental legislation: California Proposition 65</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Presenting K&#38;L’s Legal Monitoring services, an overview of the Californian legislation was explained at a workshop at the Fraunhofer IPA in Stuttgart.
In 1986, the “Safe drinking water and Toxic Enforcement Act”, better known as California proposition 65 went into force. The aim of this act is, to protect Californians from the hazardous impacts of carcinogenic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.kl-cc.de/2011/10/globally-environmental-legislation-california-proposition-65/</link>
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