Steve Andrews has worked in a number of different posts in the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) covering both policy and project responsibilities. 

In April 2004, Steve became the head of (what is now known as) the Sustainable Development & Regulation Directorate’s Eco-design & Product Regulation Unit and has responsibility for BERR’s policy on the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive, the eco-design for Energy-using Products (EuP) framework Directive and the Department’s interest in the Packaging & Packaging Waste Directive and the enforcement of its Single Market aspects within the UK.  In August 2006, he also took on the responsibility of taking the Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations through the UK Parliament and has continued to lead the WEEE policy and enforcement team since then.

Steve represents the UK Government in Brussels on the European Commission’s Technical Adaptation Committee for the RoHS and WEEE Directives and on the Consultation Forum for discussion of the proposals that are being made under the EuP framework. 

Steve has undertaken speaking engagements at conferences on all these issues in Japan,  China , Taiwan , Hong Kong , South Korea and across Western Europe and the US .