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Chinese version of RoHS
At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of information industry of the United National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of customs, the State Administration for Industry and commerce, the State General Administration of quality supervision, the State Environmental Protection Administration promulgated the" electronic information products pollution control management measures" (hereinafter referred to as the" management approach" ), marking the Chinese version of RoHS available. Recently, with the" electronic information products pollution control management measures" supporting the pollution control of electronic information products three major industry standards have been completed and approval, will soon be officially released. The expert points out, the pollution control of electronic information products related standards will push the Chinese version RoHS full implementation.
Three-in-one, standard as core
In 2006 the pollution control of electronic information products work meeting, the Ministry of information industry vice minister Lou Qinjian pointed out, pollution control management will take the standard as the core," legislative + Standard + administrative intervention" three-in-one frame work. He said," to grab from fountainhead, legislative go ahead of the rest", in the development of" management approach", in the legislation the momentum of the promotion, to develop the relevant standards, the pollution control of electronic information products ' foundation tamping.
The Ministry of Information Industry Electronics Standardization Institute, deputy chief engineer and the pollution control of electronic information products standards working group, Secretary Xing Weibing says, pollution control standards included the design standards, product standards, production standards and standard of building, from design to the last to enter the field of consumption, form a whole process of standard system. The complete approval three standards including" electronic information products"," marking for control of pollution caused by electronic information products substances" and" electronic information products testing methods for hazardous substances", there are five on the lead-free solder standards are being developed.
Ministry of information industry, the pollution control of electronic information products standard working group of standing assistant group leader Huang Jianzhong told reporters, the Ministry of information industry in 2004 started the pollution control of electronic information products standards work, the overall train of thought is: actively tracking, involved in the formulation of international standards; complete GB appoint commissioned the drafting of toxic and hazardous substances in electrical and electronic products monitoring standard task; to develop the pollution control of electronic information products industry standards. At present, the standard group has actively participated in the International Union ( IEC ) TC111 organization activities, according to the National Standard Committee of the coordination and arrangement, take the lead in organizing the Chinese WG3 working group; also the formation of toxic and harmful substances in electrical and electronic products Determination of the concentration of national standards program working group; 2004 completed in October established the pollution control of electronic information products industry standards working group on electronic information products, started the limitation of toxic and hazardous substances standards, testing standards, lead-free welding standards, certification and labeling standards of 8 industry standards.
The pollution control of electronic information products standards development process is very standard, standard, two is open, transparent. Standard door is open. According to introduction, the current standard group member has been initially established 65 business units to develop up to now, 102 enterprises, units. Standard group about the expert emphasizes again and again, standards should as far as possible and the international standards, and strive to" equivalent".
Enterprises to" test" China RoHS
Xing Weibing said, in fact in the standard has not been reported before, many enterprises have started preparations, such as the establishment of green supply chain system, green product design; ensure supplier parts material chemical composition information; obtaining third party agencies evaluation, verification and certification. " These work for enterprises in line with China's RoHS management procedures and related standards are a great help, " he said.
Electronic products to lead as the representative of the use of certain hazardous substances in environment protection pressure. According to statistics, at present product of global electron information light each year using the encapsulation material had almost 20000 tons of lead. Our country is the electronic information product use and production big country, at present all kinds of household appliances society retains the quantity exceeds 1000000000, year about 30000000 of electronic products into the discard as useless period. The National Bureau of statistics data show that, if the appliance normal service life of 10 years - 15 years of computing, from now on, our country each year will be at least 5000000 television sets, 4000000 refrigerators, 6000000 washing machine scrap. In addition, in recent years our country computer, mobile phone and other electronic products consumption increase sharply, updated faster than the home appliance product, there are about 5000000 computers, tens of millions of mobile phone has entered the elimination period. China's electronic information products has been to eliminate peak, therefore the correct control of electronic pollution, it is to promote national economic development and the foundation of constructing harmonious society.
Dell company Biao said, Dell in early 2006 released a new policy for the use of chemical supplies, provisions in the company's products in prior screening and removal of worrying constituents. The policy includes the commitment in 2009 before gradually stop all brominated flame retardants ( BFR ) and polyvinyl chloride ( PVC ) in the product use. As the world's third largest manufacturer of PC, Lenovo has been strictly enforce a harsh international and national standards. For example, launched its associate raise day commercial PC products, are powered by energy saving environmental protection design, the component, structure, shape and packaging of all to do the optimization, reduces energy consumption, radiation and noise, with energy-saving, low radiation, low pollution and so on a number of characteristics.
ZTE says about the personage, in order to cope with the standard, resurgence communication need to supply chain management, marketing, R & D, production, and quality monitoring the composition of the whole system are adjusted. According to introducing, ZTE has set up special pollution prevention and pollution prevention and control work committee working group. The personage expresses at the same time, need a government sector to provide international, domestic latest regulations and strive for progress, and international standards, reduce the enterprise pay the cost. He hoped that the standards to guide the electronic information products and supporting products and materials pollution control switching work, otherwise, the supply chain channel leads to pollution prevention and control work lag and not completely.
TCL Yu Haoqun tells a reporter, for the whole plant, supply chain management is Chongzhongzhi is heavy. In the RoHS control chain of plant products, often at the peak, raw material suppliers are located in the tower bottom, is among the components and component suppliers. Products according to the control procedure of supplier carries on the investigation, the harmful substances in the supply of spare parts, supplier for rectification, and specifies the requirements to provide third party laboratory test report. Between suppliers and his upstream in a similar fashion, layers of UNPROFOR, until the bottom of the raw material supplier. Plant products detection task is simply to supervision and inspection or recheck suppliers to provide products or testing machine. According to his introduction, TCL2006 started in the company's internal implementation of lECQ-HSPM / QC080000 system certification. Judging from the current situation, the RoHS switch to its product cost caused by the rise of certain extent, but in the long run, environmental protection electronics is the global trend, the difference in cost will be getting smaller and smaller.
Upgrading opportunities?
Huang Jianzhong points out, management measures and the relevant standard is to promote electronic information industry structure adjustment, promoting the upgrading of products. He said, the pollution control of electronic information products management approach is Chinese RoHS; China the core task of RoHS is the electronic information product substitution of hazardous substances and reduction. Lead ( Pb ) ( Hg ), mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium ( Cd ) six ( Cr6 + ), polybrominated biphenyls ( PBB ), polybrominated diphenyl ether ( PBDE two ) is in electrical and electronic products are widely used in modern science, has been shown to be on human life and health damaging substances, the implementation of RoHS measures to protect environment and human health needs.
He emphasizes, RoHS is the trend of the world, the international trend, China's electronic information industry must follow. China is the EU RoHS RoHS active echo; if we don't catch RoHS, we will lose our country electronic information industry competitiveness.
China Electronics Standardization Institute expert Zhang Dong thought, for the control of hazardous substances in electronic information products, enterprises of our country is still at the initial stage of development, related standards, management system is not perfect, harmful material substitution technology, management level rises urgently, to meet the EU RoHS directive and the" management approach" requirements, not a or a few enterprises can solve problems, but must rely on the joint efforts of the whole industry. RoHS will promote China's electronic information industry to speed up based on resource conservation and environmental protection industrial structure adjustment and upgrading of products, to ensure that the electronic information industry sustainable development.
In order to seize the upgrading opportunities, experts say, enterprises and government departments to clear its position, to jointly promote the China RoHS implementation. Will tell to the enterprise, in order to carry out the" management approach", according to the new requirements of product redesign or design improvement; material demand and the alternatives analysis, test; the restriction of hazardous substances in terms of the requirements to suppliers; for as soon as possible to enter the directory, as soon as possible through the 3C certification, become green manufacturing products. And the relevant government departments of the mission, mainly in the electronic information product pollution prevention work into the industry management, establish special agency in charge of, at the same time, strengthen market supervision, such as the United Federation of industry and commerce, quality inspection departments and the customs law enforcement and so on.