Help in the green jungle!
All of you working with designing IT equipment are well aware of the enourmous work task to keep track on all the different regulations and product standards out there. Most IT products are designed for an international market and therefore need to comply with the fast moving market of environmental legislation globally. Just one example is the European Directive called RoHS (Restrictions on Hazardous Substances) that came in to force in 2006 that now is being implemented all over the world with similar but not exactly the same legislation. To just understand the small differences between China RoHS and the European RoHS takes a lot of time to evaluate and then to feel confident that your product will comply with both of them is also a costly and time consuming process. And with the focus on Green IT and Global warming there is no doubt that we will see much more of environmental legislation in the future.
Luckily there are today internet based tools to help you sort this out! One of them is the Irish based company Compliance and Risks with their tool called C2P (Compliance to Products) http://www.complianceandrisks.com/. On top of monitoring all the different national legislations world wide you will from now on also be able to follow all what is happening with the TCO Certified standards we develop! TCO Development was recently assigned Data Partner to Compliance and Risks and will regularly update their database with all relevant information about TCO Certified.