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In accordance with new environmental legislation regarding the design and recycling of products sold in the European Union, Datalogic has made significant progress towards meeting the deadlines set in the directives. In this way Datalogic can assure its customers that it is working together with the Action Programme of the European Union, based on the belief that high environmental standards stimulate innovation and business opportunities, and that protecting the environment is essential for the quality of life of current and future generations.
ROHS - Restriction on Hazardous Substances Directive (2002/95/EC)
The RoHS Directive (2002/95/CE) restricts the use of dangerous substances (lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls-PBB or polybrominated diphenyl ethers-PBDE) in new electrical and electronic equipment, placed on the market from 1 July 2006, so as to contribute to protecting the environment and human health and preventing the generation of hazardous waste.
This Directive does not apply to spare parts for repair or reuse of electrical and electronic equipment placed on the market before 1 July 2006.
The Directive can be viewed by clicking here.
Datalogic Mobile Srl has reviewed its internal purchasing, designing and manufacturing processes in order to ensure, through contracts with suppliers setting requirements, technical documentation and process control, that non-compliant materials do not enter the manufacturing process.
Datalogic Mobile Srl ensures that it sells on the European Union market only products that comply with the requirements of the 2002/95/EC Directive concerning Restriction of the Use of certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS) and relevant and applicable law.
WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (2002/96 /EC)
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, effective as of 13 August 2005, aims to minimise the impacts of electrical and electronic equipment on the environment during its lifetime and when it becomes waste. It applies to a huge spectrum of products, and encourages and sets criteria for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of waste electrical and electronic equipment. It makes manufacturers responsible for financing most of these activities (manufacturer responsibility).
The Directive can be viewed by clicking here.
Each country in the European Union is independently responsible for issuing national laws to satisfy the European Directive within its borders. Even if the reference law is the same its assimilation will inevitably involve certain variables (regarding both the timeframe and methods for implementation) towards the WEEE obligations between the various EU member countries.
Datalogic Mobile Srl markets its products through branches of the Datalogic group, hence they have assumed the following policy: each European Datalogic Company guarantees, in its country of origin and in those in which it carries on business, complete fulfilment of the obligations imposed by the Directive.
Activities in progress:
Datalogic Mobile Srl has applied the WEEE specific symbol to advise customers that Datalogic's products fall under the WEEE Directive and must be recycled accordingly.
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