Electronic Source Book

Part I: Industry braces for the lead-free conversion (November 3, 2004)

Part II: Progress on lead-free components spotty (November 17, 2004)

Part III: IDT: 99 percent lead free already (December 1, 2004)

Part IV: Actel goes green on 100% of its FPGA products (December 15, 2004)

Part V: Lead-free parts: Welcome to the messy supply chain (January 12, 2005)

Part VI: Are the military and telecommunications industries off the hook on RoHS? (January 26, 2005)

Part VII: Will electronic equipment fail from tin-whisker shorts? (February 9, 2005)

European Directives

RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC Official Journal of the European Union (PDF-114kB)
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2003/l_037/l_03720030213en00190023.pdf

WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC Official Journal of the European Untion (PDF-287kB)
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2003/l_037/l_03720030213en00240038.pdf

WEEE Directive 2003/108/EC Ammending 2002/96/EC Official Journal of the European Untion (PDF-98kB)
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2003/l_345/l_34520031231en01060107.pdf

Trade Associations & Organizations

AFDEC - Association of Franchised Distributors of Electronic Components (UK)
http://www.afdec.org.uk/RoHS.htm

IPC - Association Connecting Electronic Industries (US)
http://www.leadfree.org/

NCEL - United States Legislation (US)
http://www.ncel.net/

NEDA - National Electronics Distributor Association (US) – Position Paper on Lead-Free (PDF-396kB)
http://www.nedassoc.org/leadfree.pdf

NEMI - National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (US)
http://www.nemi.org/projects/ese/lf_hottopics.html

EPSC - Electronics Product Stewardship Canada (Canada)
http://www.epsc.ca

Solid Waste & Recycling – (Canada)
http://www.solidwastemag.com