Seminar on 'Restriction of Hazardous Substances'
Updated: Aug 23, 2014 09:30:21am
New Delhi, Aug 23 (KNN) To revisit the rules that make restriction of hazardous substances (RoHS) mandatory as also compliance testing and certification under e-waste rules, a seminar will be held here next month.
Organised by ELCINA and C-MET, the seminar on RoHS will be held here on September-4.
The half day seminar will revisit the important directive and the rules that have come into force from May this year making RoHS mandatory, an official release said.
During the seminar, technical experts from the industry, scientists from C-MET and DeitY will share updated information on RoHS status in India, their impact on electronic products and the environment as well as key compliance and certification requirements.
The Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), established in 1990 is an autonomous scientific society under Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India dedicated to R&D on electronic materials.
It has three laboratories located in Pune, Hyderabad and Thrissur. Recently, C-MET, Hyderabad has established a state of the art chemical testing facility for the analysis of electronic and related samples and quantify the substances banned under RoHS Directive. This is the only RoHS testing facility in India established with Government of India financial support.
This workshop is a joint effort of ELCINA and C-MET to take stock of the testing facilities and compliance of RoHS rules as well as practices followed by industry under the e-waste guidelines regarding RoHS.
What is RoHS?
RoHS Regulation enforced with effect from July 1, 2006, by the European Union restricts the manufactures or importers of electrical and electronic equipment to use six banned substances namely, Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Hexavalent Chromium, Polybrominated biphenyls, polybrominated diphenyl ether. The permissible limit for all the substances is less than 1000 ppm except for Cadmium which is less 100 ppm.
Who needs to get RoHS certified?
All companies that manufacture/export electronic products need their product to be compliant with RoHS directives. The new European RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU (RoHS 2) entered into force on 21 July 2011 and requires Member States to transpose the provisions into their respective national laws by 2 January 2013.
In India the e-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011 have been notified in May 2011 and are effective from 01/05/2012.
The RoHS Rules which limit use of the mentioned substances in Electricals and Electronics products are contained in the e-waste rules which have come into effect from 1st May, 2014.
Speakers include Group Coordinator (R & D), Department of Electronics and IT, Debashish Dutta; Director (HSMD), Ministry of Environment and Forests, Chhanda Chowdhry; Executive Vice President and COO, CDIL, Pankaj Gulati; Additional Director, Department of Electronics and IT, Sandip Chatterjee; Director, C-MET, Hyderabad, N.R. Munirathnam; Senior Environmental Engineer and In charge, Hazardous Waste Management Division Director, CPCB, B. Vinod Babu; and Head, Delphi Automotive, Bipin Rai. (KNN/ES)
Organised by ELCINA and C-MET, the seminar on RoHS will be held here on September-4.
The half day seminar will revisit the important directive and the rules that have come into force from May this year making RoHS mandatory, an official release said.
During the seminar, technical experts from the industry, scientists from C-MET and DeitY will share updated information on RoHS status in India, their impact on electronic products and the environment as well as key compliance and certification requirements.
The Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), established in 1990 is an autonomous scientific society under Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India dedicated to R&D on electronic materials.
It has three laboratories located in Pune, Hyderabad and Thrissur. Recently, C-MET, Hyderabad has established a state of the art chemical testing facility for the analysis of electronic and related samples and quantify the substances banned under RoHS Directive. This is the only RoHS testing facility in India established with Government of India financial support.
This workshop is a joint effort of ELCINA and C-MET to take stock of the testing facilities and compliance of RoHS rules as well as practices followed by industry under the e-waste guidelines regarding RoHS.
What is RoHS?
RoHS Regulation enforced with effect from July 1, 2006, by the European Union restricts the manufactures or importers of electrical and electronic equipment to use six banned substances namely, Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Hexavalent Chromium, Polybrominated biphenyls, polybrominated diphenyl ether. The permissible limit for all the substances is less than 1000 ppm except for Cadmium which is less 100 ppm.
Who needs to get RoHS certified?
All companies that manufacture/export electronic products need their product to be compliant with RoHS directives. The new European RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU (RoHS 2) entered into force on 21 July 2011 and requires Member States to transpose the provisions into their respective national laws by 2 January 2013.
In India the e-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011 have been notified in May 2011 and are effective from 01/05/2012.
The RoHS Rules which limit use of the mentioned substances in Electricals and Electronics products are contained in the e-waste rules which have come into effect from 1st May, 2014.
Speakers include Group Coordinator (R & D), Department of Electronics and IT, Debashish Dutta; Director (HSMD), Ministry of Environment and Forests, Chhanda Chowdhry; Executive Vice President and COO, CDIL, Pankaj Gulati; Additional Director, Department of Electronics and IT, Sandip Chatterjee; Director, C-MET, Hyderabad, N.R. Munirathnam; Senior Environmental Engineer and In charge, Hazardous Waste Management Division Director, CPCB, B. Vinod Babu; and Head, Delphi Automotive, Bipin Rai. (KNN/ES)
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