Position Papers

Review of Directive 2002/96/EC on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)

The European Commission has initiated the review process of Directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).Orgalime is committed to continuously providing input to the WEEE review process and requests regulators to shape WEEE ...
Published
19 February 2007
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Environment
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Putting knowledge into practice: A broad-based Innovation strategy for the EU

Besides its leading role as a major exporter, the engineering industries provide enabling technology to all other industrial sectors of the EU and thus play a key role in the innovation capacity and competitiveness of the European economy as a whole.Or...
Published
14 February 2007
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R&D and Innovation
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Shaping EU Waste Policy: Appeal to secure an enforceable waste framework law

In its plenary session this week, the European Parliament will be voting in first reading on the proposal for a Waste Directive.  Orgalime industries are currently experiencing the implementation of Directive 2002/96/EC on Waste Electrical and Electron...
Published
12 February 2007
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Environment
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REACH - Interpretation of article 7.2

Orgalime fully supports the approach taken in the final report of RIP 3.8 of 26 May 2006,which clarifies that “the concentration threshold of 0.1% (w/w) refers to the average concentration of the article as produced or imported1”.We urge regulators to ...
Published
7 February 2007
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Environment
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Waste Directive - European Parliament Environment Committee Voting Results

Proposal for a Waste DirectiveIn view of the upcoming plenary vote of the European Parliament on the proposal for a waste directive, Orgalime comments on the report of the European Parliament’s Environment committee adopted on 28 November 2006 as follo...
Published
24 January 2007
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Environment
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Representation of Equipment Suppliers to the IPPC Seville Process

At the last meeting of the IPPC Information Exchange Forum in December 2006, the Commission put for discussion working document 19-6 on the representation of equipment manufacturers in the 'Seville process'.  Further to Orgalime’s initial comme...
Published
22 January 2007
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Environment
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WTO negotiations - Non-preferential rules of origin

After being consulted by the European Commission on the WTO negotiations on the harmonisation of the non-preferential rules of origin, Orgalime expressed in a position that it is following the discussions in the WTO Committee on Rules of Origin with gr...
Published
22 December 2006
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Trade
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Orgalime Letter to Minister Enestam concerning the Draft Waste Directive

In view of your further proceedings with the proposal for a Waste Directive, Orgalime would like to seek your support for its key positions on this draft Directive in the light of the voting results of the European Parliament's environment committe...
Published
14 December 2006
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Environment
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Waste Directive - Environment Committee Recommendations 28 Nov 06

In the light of the European institutions’ commitment on Better Regulation and Simplification, Orgalime is highly concerned with a number of recent proposals, which in our view would negatively impact the competitiveness of European engineering industr...
Published
24 November 2006
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Environment
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The Administration on the Control of the Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products (ACPEIP)

While Europe has (in Directive 2002/95/EC (“RoHS”)) restricted the use of six substances in electrical and electronic equipment as of 1 July 2006, European manufacturers are now facing additional and multiple substance restrictions for their products b...
Published
15 November 2006
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Environment
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