Quatech is dedicated to complying with the requirements of all applicable environmental legislation and regulations, including the restriction of hazardous materials in our products.

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Background
Quatech is collaborating with our suppliers to comply with the European Union Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment ("RoHS") Directive (2002/95/EC), taking effect July 1, 2006. The RoHS directive prohibits the sale of electronic equipment containing certain hazardous substances such as lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls ("PBB") and polybrominated diphenylethers ("PBDE") in the European Union.

Quatech has a program in place (see below) to ensure that our products satisfy the RoHS Directive with respect to the various categories of electronic products.

What we're doing about RoHS
Quatech is committed to fully comply with the RoHS Directive on or before July 1, 2006. All of our standard products will be designed (or redesigned) to be RoHS-compliant by the end of 2005. At this time, however, we cannot set specific release dates for the new RoHS-compliant Quatech products because of the tentative schedule for the availability of RoHS-compliant components.

The process we are following to ensure RoHS compliance by July 1, 2006:

• Q1-Q3 2005: Evaluated design and manufacturing processes by product family (PCMCIA, USB, Device Server, PCI/UPCI, other) to determine requirements to deliver RoHS compliant products.
  
  
• Q2 2005: Completed a review of our component and supplier base to verify supply chain ability to produce and deliver RoHS compliant products.
  
  
• Q2-Q4 2005: Designed (and redesigned) products by product family to meet RoHS-compliant specifications.
  
  
• Q2 2005: All new Quatech designs going forward will be RoHS compliant.
  
  
• Q3 2005 - Q2 2006: Conversion of existing product families to RoHS compliance based on component availability and market requirements. Quatech will begin shipping RoHS-compliant products as they are available. Announcements of RoHS-compliant products will be posted to our web site at www.quatech.com. Specific details of each product's transition to RoHS compliance can be obtained through your Quatech Account Manager.
  

Background
The European Union also adopted Directive 2002/96/EC on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), with requirements that went into effect August 13, 2005. WEEE is intended to reduce the disposal of waste from electrical and electronic equipment by establishing guidelines for prevention, reuse, recycling and recovery.

Quatech has already modified its practices and processes to conform to the requirements in this important Directive.

If you have additional questions about Quatech’s compliance with environmental legislations and regulations, please Contact us.

We at Quatech appreciate your business and are committed to working with you to ensure that together we can meet the RoHS compliance deadline.