Enforcement: Work in Progress Individual EU member states will bear responsibility for enforcing

Enforcement: Work in Progress

Individual EU member states will bear responsibility for enforcing Annex II requirements of the RoHS directive, and must have transposed the directive into their legislative frameworks by Jan. 2, 2013.
Exactly how enforcement will be carried out, however, remains to beaddressed. Article 23 of the directivemandates only that penalties for noncompliance issued by member states be “effective, proportionate and dissuasive,” leaving specifics to individual governments to decide. Based on recent discussions Emergo Group has had with notified bodies, these agencies have yet to develop a formal process for verifying RoHS compliance among their clients; however, there is no doubt that notified bodies believe compliance needs to be verified.