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RoHS / WEEE Compliance
WEEE Directive

The WEEE Directive (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive – Directive 2002/96/EC) aims to prevent WEEE arising, to encourage reuse, recycling and recovery of WEEE and to improve the environmental performance of all operators involved in the lifecyle of electrical and electronic equipment, especially those delaying with WEEE. The Directive sets requirements relating to criteria for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of WEEE. It makes producers responsible for financing most of these activities; retailers/distributors also have responsibilities in terms of take-back of WEEE and the provision of certain information. Private householders are to be able to return complete WEEE without charge.

 

Note: The latest independent TAC (Technical Adaptation Committee) report has recognized that many Member States are facing serious problems with the implementation of this Directive even though most had now transposed its requirements into domestic legislation.

The following sources of information may be useful:

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in the UK has played a major part in the original proposal, development and implementation of the WEEE Directive. The DTI web site includes non-statutory guidance notes for the WEEE Directive (includes the WEEE decision tree). This is a useful document.
WEEE Non-statutory Guidance Notes.pdf

You can find out more about the WEEE Directive on the DTI web site - 
http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovation/sustainability/weee/page30269.html

Full text of the European Union WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32002L0096:EN:HTML

The DTI site also includes an up to date guide to the transposition of the WEEE and RoHS Directives for each EU Member State. Click here for a copy of the latest Perchards Report.

The US Commercial Service provides some useful information
www.buyusa.gov/europeanunion/weee.html

European Commission Guidance Notes
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/waste/pdf/faq_weee.pdf

Companies which serve the instrumentation, control, automation and laboratory technology industry in the UK can use the services of B2B Compliance (an initiative of GAMBICA) to handle their WEEE compliance.
http://www.b2bcompliance.org.uk/

Legal guidance and advice is available from Eversheds LLP covering Environmental and Regulatory compliance for the WEEE Directive.
www.eversheds.com/serv_and_sec/service01.asp?idProduct=22

Page last updated 4th July 2006.

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