The 2002 US federal law, Sarbanes–Oxley Act. This set out new or enhanced public accounting standards for all American public company boards. This law came about after several major corporate accounting scandals, such as Enron, Peregrine Systems, (WEEE Directive) is a European Union directive, which, together with the RoHS Directive, set legally binding collection, recycling, and recovery targets for all types of electrical goods sold in the EU.