i'm continually amazed at the EU bureaucracy's diligence in protecting
us from ourselves. instead of constantly making up new regulations and
killing commerce in the process, they should perhaps ask themselves
how it comes that the euro-zone's economies lie flat on their back.
one can only have the greatest admiration for people who dare to be
entrepreneurs in this hostile climate.
here we are, hoping that their efforts won't kill the production of
our beloved analog equipment. incredible!
i wonder how many people died in Europe last year from lead-poisoning
from their analog synthesizer modules, lol.

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Florian Anwander
<Florian.Anwander@c...> wrote:

> Hi Ingo
>
> >>Perhaps one could define the vintage based devices as "re-use of

electronic equipment".

> > this is a really promising part of the directive.
> > it would be too bad if the cem/ssm-based modules
> > would vanish from the market.
> > maybe the above sentence is valid for the a100-modules
> > because the used cem/ssm chips were produced long
> > before 2006. well, lets hope for the best.
> There is also another comment on the mentioned sites: the directive

speaks about "products published after the 1st of June 2006". This
could mean any product is allowed, which has been released the first
time before that date. Such a series can be continued as long as it is
not changed...

>
> Florian