Cobalt Reporting

To stop climate change and improve environmental protection, electric cars will have to replace the current combustion engines. This will create a need for many raw materials such as cobalt, which is useful for the production of batteries to power electric vehicles.

However, more than half of the cobalt needed worldwide comes from mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which are operated by artisanal miners and where children are often employed as early as the age of

The Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA)

In 1999, Canada enacted the Environmental Protection Act, which aims to prevent pollution and protect the environment and human health. It is the legal basis for a number of federal programmes on environmental and health protection.

These include the following measures:

• Assessment and management of risks posed by chemicals, polymers and living organisms,
• Programmes relating to air and water pollution, hazardous waste, air pollutants and

SCIP stands for Substances of Concern In articles as such or in complex objects (Products).

The SCIP database is developed by ECHA (=European Chemicals Agency) based on the Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC. From 5 January 2021, companies that place articles on the EU market containing SVHCs (Substances of Very High Concern) on the REACH Candidate List have to submit information on these articles to the ECHA. Specifically, this concerns articles manufactured, distributed or imported into

RoHS Trainings

On this page you find our trainings about RoHS.

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If you wish, we offer all trainings as exclusive training (in-house training) specifically for your company.

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