EC on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE); the DirectiveEC on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS); and the Regulation EC 1907/2006 on Chemicals and their Safe Use dealing with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances (REACH) This law entered into force on 1, 2002. ,
See also relevant Climate Group study "SMART 2020" under, http://www.smart2020.org/publications/ 17 Meeting held in Brussels on 3 For contributions, see: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/programme/events3-20080703_en.html 18. ICT and Energy Efficiency. The Case for Manufacturing, Recommendations of the Consultation Group chaired by Professor Reimund Neugebauer, European Commission, The New Industry Shockwave, 2007. ,
The Impact of ICT on Energy Efficiency, Exploiting the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications and Case Studies, pp.139-146, 2006. ,
see: http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/president/pdf/Comm_20081126.pdf. The Factories of the Future initiative, as a research and innovation public-private partnership, has a total budget envelope of ? 1.2 billion, from, 2008. ,