Product category: Compliance Engineering
News Release from: Environ | Subject: WEEE compliance
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 10 March 2006
Web-based system gets to grips with WEEE
Environ has developed a web-based approach that provides the B2B producer with flexibility and control of future WEEE recycling arrangements.
The EC Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive was implemented in Germany as the ElektroG Act All producers of electrical and electronic equipment in Germany were required to register with the Elektro-Altgeraete Register (EAR) by 24th November 2005
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Nov 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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