COCIR

The BOMcheck initiative is led by COCIR (www.cocir.org), the leading non-profit trade association for the radiological, electromedical and healthcare IT industry in Europe.   COCIR membership comprises 14 of the largest manufacturers of electronic equipment in the world, including GE, Siemens, Philips, Toshiba, Hitachi, Agfa and Intel.  These companies cover all sectors of the electronics industry.  COCIR has also formed a Steering Group to guide the development of BOMcheck, which is led by Siemens and includes Philips, GE, Agfa and Texas Instruments.

The BOMcheck initiative was launched by COCIR at their offices in Brussels on 4 June 2008.  The launch was attended by the European Commission and several other trade associations.   

BOMcheck is the first system that allows electronics producers to reduce the industry burden of ensuring REACH and RoHS compliance by compiling a centralised master database of substance data from suppliers

Freimut Schröder, Siemens Healthcare and COCIR Environmental Policy Focus Group chair

This groundbreaking efficient BOMcheck system reduces costs for our members and other industries as instead of each supplier having to deal individually with each manufacturer, it will provide one central location where the supplier can share its data with multiple manufacturers.

Nicole Denjoy, COCIR Secretary General

The European Commission, Orgalime, European Lamp Companies Federation and Agoria were among the delegates at the launch on 4 June in Brussels.  The European Commission congratulated COCIR for leading this initiative.

For further information, please contact Dr Aidan Turnbull
Head of WEEE, RoHS & EcoDesign on +44 (0)1225 748420