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6.3
Statement on Environmental Protection
6.3.1
Compliance to RoHS Directive
Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June
2011 on the "Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical
and Electronic Equipment" (RoHS) predicts that all electrical and electronic
equipment being put on the European market after June 30th, 2006 must contain
lead, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and poly-
brominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) and cadmium in maximum concentration
values of 0.1% respective 0.01% by weight in homogenous materials only.
As these hazardous substances are currently used with semiconductors, plastics
(i.e. semiconductor packages, connectors) and soldering tin any hardware product
is affected by the RoHS directive if it does not belong to one of the groups of
products exempted from the RoHS directive.
Although many of hardware products of N.A.T. are exempted from the RoHS
directive it is a declared policy of N.A.T. to provide all products fully compliant to
the RoHS directive as soon as possible. For this purpose since January 31st, 2005
N.A.T. is requesting RoHS compliant deliveries from its suppliers. Special attention
and care has been payed to the production cycle, so that wherever and whenever
possible RoHS components are used with N.A.T. hardware products already.
6.3.2
Compliance to WEEE Directive
Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Commission on "Waste Electrical and
Electronic Equipment" (WEEE) predicts that every manufacturer of electrical and
electronical equipment which is put on the European market has to contribute to
the reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery of such waste so as to reduce
disposal. Moreover this directive refers to the Directive 2002/95/EC of the
European Comission on the "Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous
Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment" (RoHS).
Having its main focus on private persons and households using such electrical and
electronic equipment the directive also affects business-to-business relationships.
The directive is quite restrictive on how such waste of private persons and
households has to be handled by the supplier/manufacturer, however, it allows a
greater flexibility in business-to-business relationships. This pays tribute to the
fact with industrial use electrical and electronical products are commonly
integrated into larger and more complex environments or systems that cannot
easily be split up again when it comes to their disposal at the end of their life
cycles.
As N.A.T. products are solely sold to industrial customers, by special arrangement
at time of purchase the customer agreed to take the responsibility for a WEEE
compliant disposal of the used N.A.T. product. Moreover, all N.A.T. products are
marked according to the directive with a crossed out bin to indicate that these
products within the European Community must not be disposed with regular
waste.
