Our company is in the process of implementing a compliance program for RoHS and REACH. We manufacture a type of computer work station by assembling various smaller articles. We obtain mother board, CPU, chasis, cables, etc from suppliers.
To start, we used a third party testing organization to perform a risk assessment. For "high" risk articles, they recommended us to get a declaration of conformity as well as some kind of material declaration or material test report from the suppliers.
The issue here is that some vendor can give us the declaration of conformity to RoHS and REACH but cannot give us material declaration or material test report due to confidentiality issue or they cant be bother to produce such information.
My question is do we have to strictly follow testing organization's recommendations? Is having just the declaration of conformity sufficient? Is there a standard that I should be following in terms of what documentation is "required" from the suppliers.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
To start, we used a third party testing organization to perform a risk assessment. For "high" risk articles, they recommended us to get a declaration of conformity as well as some kind of material declaration or material test report from the suppliers.
The issue here is that some vendor can give us the declaration of conformity to RoHS and REACH but cannot give us material declaration or material test report due to confidentiality issue or they cant be bother to produce such information.
My question is do we have to strictly follow testing organization's recommendations? Is having just the declaration of conformity sufficient? Is there a standard that I should be following in terms of what documentation is "required" from the suppliers.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.