FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 24, 2010

As Companies Struggle to Comply with Environmental Regulations, TIA's EIATRACK Unveils Interactive Service at CEA's Greener Gadgets

EIATRACK 2.0 Upgrade Enables Efficiency and Focus in Tracking Ever-Increasing Environmental Regulations

Arlington, Va. – As countries, states, provinces and municipalities seek to reduce e-waste and carbon emissions, companies must comply with such laws as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) product take-back regulations, rules governing restricted substances in their products, and even the safe shipment of goods across borders.

EIATRACK, a service of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), covers an extensive scope of regulations and legislations geared to the information and communications technology (ICT), consumer electronics (CE), and medical device industries, and the service has just launched an interactive upgrade to allow subscribers to more effectively keep track of the many laws and regulations around the world.

As industry and government seek common ground on complex issues such as product take back, navigating the maze of environmental regulations and legislation state-to-state and around the globe has become infinitely more challenging for manufacturers, distributors and contractors. More than 10 years ago, leading IT manufacturers joined to develop EIATRACK, an online tool that maintains current information and resources to making the tracking task simple.

TIA will unveil EIATRACK 2.0 at CEA's Greener Gadgets Conference in New York this Thursday, Feb. 26. CEA, along with industry associations such as ITI, AdvaMed, CCCA and ECCB, are sponsors of the service, an arrangement that offers cost-savings to their members that subscribe to EIATRACK.

EIATRACK 2.0 has a range of new features based on user demands, which includes the ability to:

• Gather articles and documents of interest into one secure, company-specific library with powerful search and filter tools to quickly find important items
• Tag and highlight key dates, such as when their products will need to comply with a regulation at some point in the future, and to export the dates to their Outlook calendar along with alerts prior to the actual date
• Set tasks for oneself as well as other company users within the system (EIATRACK allows unlimited user licenses for each company), also exportable to an Outlook task listing
• Conduct advanced keyword searches
• Export matrices of various regulations tracked state-by-state (for the U.S.) or country by country to a spreadsheet format

EIATRACK 2.0 helps manufacturers, distributors, OEMs and retailers plan around the increasingly complex regulations relating to:

• Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
• Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical Substances (REACH)
• Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive and Product Take-Back Laws
• Energy Using Products (EuP) Directive and Design for Environment
• Energy Efficiency
• Batteries
• Packaging
• Labelling

The subscription-based web service delivers information on product-oriented environmental compliance for the electronics, IT and medical device industries in more than 100 global jurisdictions – including each state in the United States – enabling companies to cost-effectively manage critical factors in the design, marketing and distribution of their products.

The EIATRACK team is made up of legal and technical partners that cut across the disciplines of law, environmental policy and science. Compliance issues are tracked through subject updates and reports across jurisdictions. EIATRACK is owned by TIA, the leader in advocacy, standards development, business development and intelligence for the ICT industry.

Join Taly Walsh, VP for Sustainability, Intelligence and Networking, for a demo of EIATRACK 2.0 at the Greener Gadgets Conference, or contact her at +1.703.907.7744 or at twalsh@tiaonline.org for more information about free demos and subscriptions to the service.

About TIA
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) represents the global information and communications technology (ICT) industry through standards development, advocacy, tradeshows, business opportunities, market intelligence and world-wide environmental regulatory analysis. With roots dating back to 1924, TIA enhances the business environment for broadband, mobile wireless, information technology, networks, cable, satellite and unified communications. Members' products and services empower communications in every industry and market, including healthcare, education, security, public safety, transportation, government, the military, the environment and entertainment.

TIA is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Visit tiaonline.org.

TIA's Board of Directors includes senior-level executives from ACS, ADC, ADTRAN, Alcatel-Lucent, ANDA Networks, AttivaCorp, Bechtel Communications, Inc., Cisco Systems, Corning Incorporated, Ericsson, Inc., GENBAND, Inc., Graybar, Henkels & McCoy, ILS Technology, Intel Corporation, Intersect, Inc., LGE, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, Openwave, Inc., Panasonic Computer Solutions Co., Powerwave Technologies, Qualcomm, Research In Motion, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Corporation, Tellabs, Tyco Electronics, Ulticom, Inc., and Verari Systems. Advisors to the Board include FAL Associates, Orca Systems and Telcordia Technologies.

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