The online consultation is closed.

Stakeholder consultation on adaptation to scientific and technical progress under Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment for the purpose of a possible amendment of the Annex.

The consultation starts on 13 August 2008 and will run for eight weeks until 8 October 2008.

• Consultation document
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• Guidelines for comments
  > Download guidelines for submitting stakeholder comments 

• General questionnaire
  > Download general questionnaire

For the exemption request 5, the documentation that has been made available to the Commission by the applicants is published.

Specific questions are listed that are to be seen in addition to those of the general questionnaire. Stakeholders are requested to base their submission on both questionnaires including as much comprehensive information as possible.

Comments submitted during the consultation will also be posted on this website under request 5.

Further exchange with stakeholders will be held after the consultation has ended for those issues where further need for information and / or need for (technical) discussion has been identified.

Should there be any mistakes or unclarities we apologise for the inconvenience and kindly ask you to provide us with a short indication.