The Product Watch Reports have been developed in the framework of the ‘Advanced Technologies for Industry’ project and serve to identify and analyse 15 promising advanced technology (AT)- based products and their value chains, with an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the EU position...
An established German electronics company had been manufacturing their product in China for years. They had signed a strong contract with the Chinese factory manufacturing their goods, however as they did not sell domestically within China, they had not registered their trademarks in China. Rece...
The key provisions of Directive 2011/65/EU (RoHS 2) can be found in Article 4(1), requiring Member States to ensure that electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) placed on the market, including cables and spare parts, does not contain the substances listed in Annex II (restricted substances) in...
Under Framework Contract no. ENV.A.2/FRA/2015/0008, DG Environment of the European Commission contracted a consortium led by Oeko-Institut for “Assessing an exemption request for the use of cadmium in luminescent material for on-chip application on LED semiconductor chips”. This request was subm...
This study presents a roadmap of the emerging technologies impacting the global electronic value chain: 1. Including Micro-Nano Electronics (MNE) innovations but also emerging computing technologies in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Smart Systems end-user markets; 2. Including the key interact...
Under Framework Contract no. ENV.A.2/FRA/2015/0008 of 27/03/2015, a consortium led by Oeko-Institut was requested by DG Environment of the European Commission to provide technical and scientific support for the evaluation of exemption requests under the RoHS 2 regime. The work has been undertake...
This sectoral report has been prepared in the framework of the ‘Advanced Technologies for Industry’ (ATI) project, initiated by the European Commission, Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs and the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. I...
