Editing RoHS (section)

== Other standards ==
RoHS is not the only environmental standard of which electronic product developers should be aware. Manufacturers will find that it is cheaper to have only a single [[bill of materials]] for a product that is distributed worldwide, instead of customising the product to fit each country's specific environmental laws. Therefore, they develop their own standards, which allow only the strictest of all allowable substances.

For example, [[IBM]] forces each of their suppliers to complete a Product Content Declaration<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibm.com/ibm/environment/products/ecpquest.shtml |title=IBM and the Environment – Product Content Declaration for IBM Suppliers |publisher=Ibm.com |access-date=3 July 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704200951/http://www.ibm.com/ibm/environment/products/ecpquest.shtml |archive-date=4 July 2015}}</ref> form to document compliance to their environmental standard 'Baseline Environmental Requirements for Materials, Parts and Products for IBM Logo Hardware Products'.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibm.com/ibm/environment/products/especs.shtml |title=IBM Engineering Specification 46G3772: Baseline Environmental Requirements for Supplier Deliverables to IBM |publisher=Ibm.com |date=26 May 2015 |access-date=3 July 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704213955/http://www.ibm.com/ibm/environment/products/especs.shtml |archive-date=4 July 2015}}</ref> Thus, IBM banned [[decabromodiphenyl ether|DecaBDE]], even though there was formerly a RoHS exemption for this material<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2005:271:0048:0050:EN:PDF |journal=Official Journal of the European Union |title=COMMISSION DECISION: 13 October 2005: amending for the purposes of adapting to the technical progress the Annex to 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 |access-date=5 March 2017}}</ref> (overturned by the European Court in 2008).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX%3A62006J0014%3AEN%3AHTML|title=Joined Cases C-14/06 and C-295/06 European Parliament and Kingdom of Denmark v Commission of the European Communities|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709094120/http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX%3A62006J0014%3AEN%3AHTML|url-status=dead|date=9 July 2012|archive-date=9 July 2012|website=archive.is}}</ref>

Similarly, here is [[Hewlett-Packard]]'s environmental standard.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/supplychain/gen_specifications.html |format=PDF |title=HP's General Specification for the environment (GSE) |publisher=Hp.com |access-date=3 July 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150814145417/http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/supplychain/gen_specifications.html |archive-date=14 August 2015}}</ref>