Scheme offers three routes to RoHS compliance

SGS has devised a modular RoHS compliance scheme for retailers and importers.

When considering the complex process of manufacturing electrical and electronic goods and products it is imperative to have an effective quality management system in place, able to manage the whole supply chain from raw materials to components and via the end-production stage to shipment.

As the retailer importing the goods and products into the European Union is responsible for meeting all European Regulations applicable to the product in question(such as the RoHS Directive), it is becoming ever more important to have effective and adequate test and control mechanisms in place to ensure and to prove that the "imported product" meets all necessary requirements.

The objective of the SGS modular RoHS concept for retailers and importers is to provide effective and adequate control mechanisms to ensure that the imported products meet the product specifications (agreed between th