Electrical and Electronic Equipment and the Environment 2010

• What is HP's vision of resource management look like : the reality of what happens to WEEE when consumers and businesses are finished with their old IT
• Impact on future legislation : how to build smart legislation to manage the reality of what happens (brokers, cherry picking, illegal shipments to developing countries etc)
• outlook to the next decade: materials/technology/recycling consequences: the death of the CRT monitor, new technologies like electric cars competing for IT materials, manufacturers like HP actively sourcing secondary materials due to economics or ethics (blood minerals).

• Electronic Waste – different types of laws and overview.
• Substance restrictions - The US EPEAT standard,
• substance restrictions mirroring the requirements of the EU RoHS Directive.
• Comprehensive Chemicals Policy - Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
• Green Chemistry Initiative

• US Federal and procurement requirementsRetailer and other market initiatives
• US Federal and state energy efficiency mandates and voluntary programs
• US federal and state Design for the Environment initiatives focused on electronics

An update on the enforcement activities and priorities of the NMO Enforcement Authority.

• RoHS Activity
• Batteries placing on the market activities
• Eco Design activities
• Energy labelling activities
• Removability of Batteries
• ADCO activities
• Target areas and priorities
• Future considerations

• Status of RoHS/WEEE Regulation in China, Japan and Korea
• Implementation and Enforcement of RoHS/WEEE Regulation in China, Japan and Korea
• Theory and Practice in the Implementation of RoHS/WEEE Regulation
• Future Direction of Product-related Environmental Regulation in Asia

• Challenges to meeting the higher collection targets for household WEEE
• Solutions to meeting the target
• Potential impact on the B-to-B sector if hit with higher collection targets (current performance for some categories are below 2%)
• Potential solutions for the B-to-B sector
• Implications for revision of what is household and non-household WEEE.

• Duties of Article importers/distributors
• Duties of Downstream Users
• The Enforcement Regime in the UK
• Update on enforcement activities

• Taking a green approach to the environment from the perspective of a manufacturer and global distributor.
• Trying to reach a voluntary agreement on ecodesign requirements for imaging equipment (EuP Lot 4).
• Taking on the challenging requirements of the remainder of Eco Design in respect of imaging products.
• Preparing for the implementation of the Eco Design Directive enforcement within member states.

• Progress and challenges of REACH in the run-up to the first registration deadline
• What to do if the use of a substance by a downstream user is not covered by the Exposure Scenario of his supplier?
• State of play on the update of the Guidance on requirements for substances in articles
• Compliance issues for article producers and importers
• Safety information

• Intelligence gathering
• Risk analysis
• Reason for Obsolescence
  • Registration
  • Product rationalisation
  • Restriction Annex XVII
  • Authorisation
• Communication
• Implementation
  • Emergency
  • Completion

Case Study - Chemical conversion coating

• Identification
• Analysis
  • Impact across
  • Qualified alternatives
  • Unqualified alternatives
  • Stakeholders
• Business continuity
• Implementation

The background to the Defence Exemption
Why is it required (with examples):

• State secrets
• Commercial secrets
• ITAR
  

The UK implementation of the Defence Exemption
The Netherlands implementation of the Defence Exemption
Other Defence Agencies progress (or not as the case may be)
The European Defence Agency:

• Programme of work
• Defence Exemption website

• The types of substances under scrutiny being considered for possible restriction
• Which substances are most at risk
• How to identify alternatives that will not themselves be restricted in the future