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EU European Union

Are You Ready? WEEE Directive Full Implementation Starts 15-Aug-18

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Processing of waste electrical and electronic materials

Many man­u­fac­tur­ers selling indus­tri­al products into the EU mar­ket have come to under­stand at least one of the envir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion Dir­ect­ives, RoHS – the “Restric­tion of the Use of Cer­tain Haz­ard­ous Sub­stances.” In this post, I’m going to be look­ing at anoth­er envir­on­ment­al dir­ect­ive: WEEE – the “Waste Elec­tric­al and Elec­tron­ic Equip­ment” Dir­ect­ive (2012/19/EU). The WEEE Dir­ect­ive requires […]

CE Mark

Brexit is such a waste

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Brexit: UK and EU Flags against a blue sky

This morn­ing I read news of the tests that the May Gov­ern­ment plans to use when assess­ing the Brexit deal they are try­ing to nego­ti­ate with the EU. The @CommonsEUexit report on the UK/EU future rela­tion­ship has just been pub­lished. Here are its “key tests” for judging a future deal. Full text of the report here – […]

Canada

CETA in force!

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Image with the Canadian and EU flags blending together.

CETA comes into force today, 21-Sep-2017 If you are unfa­mil­i­ar with CETA, the Com­pre­hens­ive Eco­nom­ic and Trade Agree­ment, this ground­break­ing trade agree­ment between Canada and the European Uni­on will be a game-changer for Canada. Until today, the actu­al date for imple­ment­a­tion of the agree­ment has been a mov­ing tar­get. There were at least two pre­vi­ous dates announced […]